Golden Alaska Ocean Reflection Abstract Water Photography
Bronze Ripples Across a Broad Path of Sunlight
From the window of a small plane, the ocean became a field of bronze and gold. We were lifting away from the Alaskan shoreline when the sun’s angle created this broad reflection on the water. I kept looking down, fascinated by the small differences in brightness across an otherwise simple view.
The photograph has no horizon. Instead, a lighter path runs through the rippled surface, with darker water around it. Fine marks gather into larger bands, and each change in the surface catches the light a little differently. What first seems like one golden area becomes many separate reflections when I look closely.
I took this photograph during a coastal flight in 2011. As the aircraft gained altitude, the angle changed and the reflection soon disappeared. That brief opportunity was part of what made the scene worth photographing: the subject was ordinary water, but the view depended on a particular relationship between light and position.
I wanted the whole frame to stay about that relationship. The darker ripples give the brightness a structure, while the warm colour connects the more complicated surface details. I enjoy the photograph both as an ocean view and as an abstract pattern. From a distance, it can be read as a broad passage of light; closer looking brings back the individual ripples and the constant small changes that make a water surface interesting.
© Dan Kosmayer, 2011
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Every photograph in my collection comes from my own travels, explorations, and years behind the camera.
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