Wild Grace: The River Stour

These images are part of the first set in a developing body of work where I explore the specific characteristics of a river through tight compositions that study the landscape of its surface. My goal for each image submitted here was to capture the serene nature and clarity of a “chalk stream” river—one of only about 200 in the world. I was struck by the transparent and steadily flowing water that merges what is above and below its surface into ambiguous compositions. I made this photograph along the River Stour in Canterbury England. At the heart of my work is a love of nature and its potential for communicating metaphoric ideas.