Culver, Elkhorn Slough, CA
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Culvert
Wandering around the furthest inland parts of Elkhorn Slough, a wash of tidal water flowing in and out of Moss Landing on the Monterey Bay along the California coast, we stopped to photograph one late afternoon. It was one of many spots around the slough where we gave students a chance to wander and photograph. I had come here many time to find photographs and had taken some that, if I didn’t obsessively keep all the negatives I’ve ever taken, would have found their way to the trash heap.
This day was different though. I don’t know what setting good fortune or the stars need to be in to find photographs that speak to me but on this day it was here, along this stretch of road; a levy between two tidal basins. Aimlessly wandering along, hands deep in my pockets while watching others find photographic vistas that excited them, I looked over the side of the road to the glassy water submerging six corrugated pipes in the rising tide. Twilight’s soft glow was also enveloping everything and in this mirrored vista, earth and sky combined.
You have to be quick to capture these gifts, so I ran back to get my camera and tripod and working in hurried determination, stepped off the road onto the soft salty loam to pitch this photographs birth. Two sheets of film exposed and the evening breeze rippled the mirror…
A moment…
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