On Saturday morning I woke up after a night’s rain and the first thing I thought of were puddles. Puddles offer a unique opportunity to capture abstract, dream-like photos that are a blend of two different perspectives of the world in a single frame. I walked into downtown Orwigsburg in hunt of the biggest puddles I could find.
The first photograph in the series is of the lone stoplight in Orwigsburg that proudly directs sporadic traffic. Telephone wires in the second frame draw the viewer’s eye horizontally and the yellow arrow guides the viewer toward the Boyer’s sign in the third image, the local grocery store and a staple of the town. The series continues with three photographs of houses; the first with bricks and dirt as the sky, the second with a reflection of a black car that looks as if it’s parked in the driveway but is actually across the street, and the third which is framed by the sidewalk and a telephone pole.
I wanted to end the series with a feeling of spring, and the tulip beginning to bloom in front of the third house fills the role perfectly, symbolizing thriving life. We too, will thrive once again.