Chasing a Dream, the Elusive Black and White Photograph
The Disappearing Lake | This is an image I’ve been trying to recreate since 2016.
There is a lake in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon that drains every summer through holes in the volcanic rock on the lake bottom, then refills when the rains and snow return in the winter. In 2016, I made a unique photo of one of these holes where the water drains. While I do like the image I made in 2016, I would return every year trying to re do that original composition but with better light and better camera gear. The problem with trying to recreate that image is that the window of time for those conditions is usually very short. Every year, I would return and every year I missed that window where the water would drain just right, pouring into the hole from all sides. The shot I was looking for just wasn’t there. Even so, I always made other photos on those annual visits to this little lake, and some I ended up liking a lot, maybe even more than that original photo. It’s been a few years since I’ve been back. On my last visit, it looked like what I was looking for would no longer be possible because of how the lake’s bottom has changed over time. I’ve been thinking it might be time to pay another visit to the little lake. Even if that elusive photo I’ve been chasing for so many years will probably not be a possibility, there may still be other photos waiting to be discovered.
Chasing a Dream is a video I made after my last visit to the lake, a project that I started in 2016. This video was originally published on my Riding The Edge YouTube channel, after only a few hundred views I reposted this video to my smaller Seeing Monochrome Channel and it as done much better there with thousands of views.
Photos I’ve made while chasing a dream
