Framed Lake Hotel, Yellowstone National Park, September 2006
A wonderful old bus came and parked outside the hotel. One of our group had walked down to the lake. I thought this was an interesting view of the lake and our friend.
It is astonishing how each of us are drawn to the same subject, and often use similar methods of executing our images, yet they somehow always come out differently, a measure of the fact that we each express ourselves in own way. You use repeating verticals inside of an almost square format to lock the man into an incongruous setting -- a wide open lake within a constrained, cell-like, frame within a frame. The man seems simultaneously free and trapped at the same time. In my own image of this scene, I used a wider window and a wider frame to stress the scale of the lake to contrast to the tiny man. (http://www.pbase.com/pnd1/image/69231682 )
