Autumnal tints of Walden Pond

Henry David Thoreau lived in a small cabin in the woods surrounding Walden Pond. I decided to visit the pond over the course of two years to photograph it the way Thoreau would have seen it in all four seasons of the year. This image is a combination of images of colorful autumn leaves that had fallen into the water's edges of the pond. A pair of mallard ducks swim in the distance at sunset. I call my technique “Image Architecture” where my approach to constructing the image is to first break apart a scene into component parts by taking many photographs of the scene from myriad angles – from the air, from the land, at different times of day, etc. -- then use those parts as the building blocks for reconstructing a new scene with minimalist, geometric, and architectural overtones.