The Rock Garden
13.5" x 25" • ©2004 • Pamela Belcher • Collection of the Artist
My husband and son were canoeing (in the tandem) with their canoe club on the Skykomish River in Washington. I was chasing them in the car, taking pictures. I was standing on the Skykomish Bridge looking down at the beautiful rocks when I remembered I had a polarizing filter on my lens. I put
it into action and snapped away. I combined about five photographs to get a workable composition. I thought I was very clever in coming up with the title until my husband told me that canoe and kayak people call pretty rocky sections of rivers "rock gardens".
3rd Place-Landscapes/It's Colored Pencil, CPSA DC 207 Juried Group Show,
Washington State Trade & Convention Center, Seattle WA, 2005