9 North Berkeley Hall -3
Each piece is captured in a rare moment where light, time, and place come together.
Fog on the 9th North gave me one of my favorite compositions on the property. A single oak stands on a small island that juts into the pond — ordinarily a structural detail, but under heavy morning mist it became the whole subject. The mist stripped the color out of everything, leaving only a warm gray palette that I leaned into with a sepia conversion.
The pond went glass-still and mirrored the scene perfectly. The lone oak, the pines on the far bank, the distant tree lines all doubled downward in a reflection so complete that the top and bottom halves of the image read almost as a Rorschach. I composed symmetrically to honor that mirror, placing the tree island just off center to keep the image from feeling too formal.
There's a melancholy to foggy scenes, and these quiet Low Country mornings seem to carry it more honestly than most. The photograph doesn't try to do anything beyond honoring what was actually there.
9 North Berkeley Hall — 3 holds a single oak in heavy morning fog — a sepia meditation on solitude, stillness, and the Low Country's gift of quiet.
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