Trogir Cathedral Reflected in Water Black and White Photography
A Slender Bell Tower Extends Into the Rippling Foreground
What stopped me was the water. During a walk along Trogir’s waterfront, I paused where the Cathedral of St. Lawrence and the adjoining buildings were reflected below the shore. The black and white photograph gives the tower two forms: a crisp outline against the sky and a wavering one extending toward the bottom of the frame.
I stayed longer than I had planned, watching the surface and waiting for it to settle. The reflection never became entirely rigid, and that is part of its appeal. Small ripples break the rows of windows into shorter marks, while the tower remains recognizable even as its lower outline bends. There is enough movement to distinguish the water from the architecture above it.
The waterfront buildings make a broad base for the taller church tower. Their repeated windows and pale walls carry detail across the center of the composition, with darker roofs and trees giving that band a varied edge. Above, open sky leaves room around the tower; below, the darker foreground water gives its reflection a clear place to end.
I chose monochrome because the scene’s structure mattered most to me. Upright stonework, repeated windows, and reflected lines can be followed without color competing for attention. The view holds the stillness I found on that walk in Croatia, but it also contains a small visual tension: the buildings appear steady, while their second image shifts with the surface beneath them.
© Dan Kosmayer, 2020
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