This was my attempt to make lemons into lemonade. My landscape photography outing wasn’t paying off — midday light was too harsh on the treelined stream I was trying to shoot — so I began looking for alternative ideas to photograph.
That’s when I noticed all the curled pieces of sycamore bark that were scattered all around the riverbank area. I gathered a selection of interesting pieces and brought them back to make still life studies.
I’m not really sure if I like the results or not, but I think it’s important to experiment and consider new ideas and subjects.
Photographs from the day
![This is the landscape nearby -- beautiful area above the stream.](https://icatchshadows.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/DSC03882-960x641.jpg)
![Trying to decide how to photograph something like this](https://icatchshadows.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IMG_0857-960x1280.jpg)
![The large, flat strip of bark rolled into a tube en route back to the studio](https://icatchshadows.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/DSC03887B-Sycamore-Bark-40-x-60_DxOFP-960x1439.jpg)
![I kinda like this](https://icatchshadows.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/DSC03894-Sycamore-Bark-40-x-60-960x1439.jpg)
![There are beautiful details in the textures on the high-resolution version of this one](https://icatchshadows.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/DSC03900-Sycamore-Bark-960x1439.jpg)
There are beautiful details in the textures on the high-resolution version of this one
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~ Keith