After a Rain -

Mint Museum

In the early 1990’s I went down to Charlotte, North Carolina fairly often to play as a substitute or added musician in the symphony. Morning rehearsals and evening concerts left me with some time in the afternoons. Once I discovered this park area at the Mint Museum, I returned there often, with a variety of equipment, to make nearly the same photograph. It always seemed to have just rained or snowed. I had made a scan from an 8x10 negative which might be a better picture (this is the straight scan, without any refining in the computer), but ended up using one in the Salem show that was made on another trip, with the Hasselblad. The square format, as I set up the picture, kept the whole view lower to the ground than my usual “portrait” view would have, and that plays up the arcs formed by pools left by the rain and the bases of the tree trunks.