Nature’s Watercolor
Today’s post is about one of my favorite images, Nature’s Watercolor. We have a 16 x 20 canvas printed with today’s featured image hanging in a bedroom in our apartment and last week end this same image sold twice in a Christmas Market in Florence, Alabama (USA) as matted prints.
Not only am I drawn to the muted, serene colors in this image but I also remember capturing the scene during one of our boat rides on the Jourdan River in Hancock County Mississippi. The Jourdan is a tidal river along the Mississippi Gulf Coast and its brackish waters flow first into the Bay of Saint Louis and then into the Gulf of Mexico.
Spending time on the bleached white sandbars along the Jourdan River was one of my favorite things about living in Bay Saint Louis and boating on that river. There are several bridges that cross the river including one that carries traffic on Interstate 10.
The actual support posts for this bridge can be seen in the upper left of the photograph with water reflections running in between them. The pink and gray colored posts running through the middle of the photograph are reflections on the surface of the water of the real support posts.
This photograph was taken shortly after sunset allowing the soft muted colors of the sunset’s afterglow to be reflected from the sky to the water’s surface.
The resulting image projects a rather abstract picture with soft muted colors resulting in a serene scene resembling a watercolor painting. All of this beauty was created naturally and I was blessed to view it and preserve it for others to enjoy.
Click here to view the full size image of Nature’s Watercolor.
