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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Ninety-five: Back to the beach -- finding new stories in familiar subjects > Partners, Mission Beach, California, 2015
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16-SEP-2015

Partners, Mission Beach, California, 2015

I was focusing on a young boy, slowly carrying a belly-board into heavy surf. The board looked as large as he was. My first idea was a very simple one – I wanted to make an incongruous photo of a belly-board wading into the sea, with only the hands of the boy showing. I had made several attempts at this amusing abstraction when suddenly a seagull swooped into my frame. It seemed headed directly at the boy with the belly-board. I caught it just as its outstretched curving wings echoed the curves of the board itself. The bird, the boy, and the board become partners here. They produce two ideas working side by side – the incongruous pairing of board and boy, plus the simultaneous incongruous pairing of the bird’s wings and the board’s curves.

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Date/Time16-Sep-2015 09:43:42
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Focal Length230 mm
Exposure Time1/556 sec
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Phil Douglis02-Nov-2015 21:22
Thanks, Iris, for this comment. I think "persistence" may have been more in play for me here than "Patience." I was definitely working with but one idea in mind, but somehow it was not coming together for me. Suddenly the seagull arrived, and I was able to spontaneously respond to this chance to make an entirely different kind of image. I made this image on pure instinct -- but I would have never had the chance to do so had I not persisted in shooting this child and his belly-board, as he slowly waded into the surf.
Iris Maybloom (irislm)02-Nov-2015 19:14
Once again your patience paid off providing us with this amusing photo.
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