River Rock
by Jeff Burgess
Title
River Rock
Artist
Jeff Burgess
Medium
Photograph - Fusion Photography
Description
Moving water is one of the more spectacular images that can be photographed. It is always changing, depending on the topography, flow level, and speed. Rocks that have been in a moving river for a long time will be worn flat and round through the persistent grinding effect of silt and sand. This image is taken with a Canon Mark1 camera with a wide angle lens.
The water in a river begins as rain that either accumulates on the ground or seeps underground to later emerge naturally. It usually ends at the sea, although there are many rivers that simply dry up on land. As is noted in Wikipedia: the water in a river is usually confined to a channel, made up of a stream bed between banks. In larger rivers there is also a wider floodplain shaped by flood-waters over-topping the channel. Floodplains may be very wide in relation to the size of the river channel. This distinction between river channel and floodplain can be blurred, especially in urban areas where the floodplain of a river channel can become greatly developed by housing and industry.
The river in this work appears to be flowing between rock caverns. It may have initially flowed through a valley or a plain but it has emerged as this broad expanse of rock and water.
The term upriver (or upstream) refers to the direction towards the source of the river, i.e. against the direction of flow. Likewise, the term downriver (or downstream) describes the direction towards the mouth of the river, in which the current flows.
The river channel typically contains a single stream of water, but some rivers flow as several interconnecting streams of water, producing a braided river. Wikipedia notes that extensive braided rivers are now found in only a few regions worldwide, such as the South Island of New Zealand. They also occur on peneplains and some of the larger river deltas. Anastamosing rivers are similar to braided rivers and are also quite rare. They have multiple sinuous channels carrying large volumes of sediment.
In Washington state many of the states rivers have been dammed. This has resulted in significant loss of habitat for native fish species such as salmon. One dam has recently been demolished to allow return of salmon (the Elwa dam on the Elwa river). The return of nature has been simply amazing.
This river is real but the scene is imaginary. It is mythical in the true sense of the word.
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April 10th, 2014
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Jeff Burgess
Congratulations your beautiful art has been featured on the home page of the Pacific Northwest Artist group. Please post it in the discussion section: featured 2023 for memorialization and greater exposure.
Lyric Lucas
Congratulations, your beautiful artistic work is Featured on the home page of the "Bedroom Art Gallery" group. l/f 9/12/23