Swans on the Ouse © 2011 Mufidah Kassalias
The inspiration for the Reflections in the River Ouse series came to me on the Cliffe Bridge where I paused early on a glorious mid-summer morning to watch the river flowing slowly, languidly out to sea. The air was still and the reflections in the river unusually clear. I pulled out my camera and started shooting, capturing only the reflections in the frame.
In contrast to that first morning of calm waters when I shot reflections of the West bank, the wind was blowing strong gusts the evening I photographed the East bank, making the water quite choppy and the reflections more abstract.
All ten photographs were taken at dawn or dusk – the golden hour – when the sun was soft and warm, and in all cases at high tide.
I love your watery photos Mufidah. Fluid and dreamlike. They’re pictures of a dimension between here and somewhere else.
Love from Emmanuel
Thank you Emmanuel. I’d like to do more of these at some point … I need to find another river, not too wide or too far away, that has interesting, photogenic banks. Love, Mufidah