#00162, Delta Pool

A couple of years ago I was visiting a friend (Graham) while staying on the Sunshine Coast. We had spent the afternoon photographing with Maris and Zigi (two other friends also large format landscape photographers) on the shore of a nearby lake. With a collection of 5x4 and 10x8 cameras it must have made quite a sight.

After sunset we retired to Graham's house and before dinner I browsed his small gallery, finding myself particularly taken by a shot of a very geometric rock pool.

A week or so later I was roaming the shore in the Noosa National Park when lo-and-behold I saw the same pool. My first reaction was "that's a nice shot", followed immediately by recognition of the pool as being the one in Graham's photo.

Funnily enough Maris (one of the other friends mentioned above) had also discovered the same pool and had not photographed it because it had been "done". I however felt that nobody "owned" the pool or the image and proceeded to make my own version.

I could not recall the exact perspective of the print on the wall and it didn't matter anyway, the light and conditions were probably different on the day I was there. The shot would have to be taken, or not, according to what I saw.

I wanted to get higher to stretch the pool and create a squarer shot but the higher I got the more I lost the total reflection from the pool's surface and started to see the bottom. Eventually I reached a compromise and the result is as seen here.

Looking at the image now I like the fact that I can see some of the pool's bottom with the snail trails in the sand.

Hells Kitchen, Noosa National Park, QLD

Technical: Tachihara 5x4, 210mm, 30s, f64
Keywords: delta pool sunshine coast landscape shore lake cameras sunset house geometric rock noosa national park lo first funnily perspective wall reflection bottom looking snail hells kitchen qld black white lakes ponds