Water Lilies

Description

This image is 60 x 24-inches (152 x 61cm) in size. Canvas prints are sold stretched or un-stretched. Stretched prints are available for pick up only in Vancouver. Addresses further afield will get unstretched canvases and paper prints rolled up in a tube for shipping. Instructions for stretching/framing will be included in the shipping tube.

I took this photo as a request from my sister. She and her husband had recently bought a cottage on Wood Lake in Muskoka, Ontario. She wanted a big photo of water lilies to go above their bed in their new place.

Her cottage is on an island facing south. On the north side of the island in the shade of the big pine trees are clusters of these big fat, white water lilies growing in several places. I took my camera gear and paddled her little red canoe around to take some photos.

It’s not easy to photograph things like this from a canoe. For one thing you need to be down low to sort of look the flowers in the eye. So, you have to sit crouched over in your seat or get down on the floor of the boat. Very hard on the knees in my old age. Secondly, the canoe doesn’t sit still. Even the slightest breeze is enough to push you around. So, when you find a good angle, you don’t have it for long before you have put the camera down, pick up the paddle again and reposition yourself for another shot.