‘The little wooden rowboat sat out on the lake as though moored in a time warp. It had been a long time since the old man, standing on the shore, had actually used it. After rain, he would wade out across the lake bed, toes squishing through the matted seaweed to bail it out. Sometimes give the painted wood a cursory clean. More often, though, he panned past it through his binoculars from the balcony of his lakeside home.’
From Paul’s short story ‘The pelican, the boat and Ellen’.
A pelican has made an old wooden rowboat its temporary perch.
The bird stands at one end of the boat while both are reflected in the still blue water of Lake Macquarie. Behind them, the distant shore becomes soft and secondary, leaving bird, boat and reflection to carry the photograph.
The boat already had a history before the pelican arrived. Its owner continued to care for it even after using it less often. That human story remains invisible in the photograph, but it changes what the boat represents: not simply an object, but something held through memory and habit.
Artist: Paul Foley
Collection: Australian Landscape Fine Art Photography
Title: The Pelican
Artwork: #0059
Location: Lake Macquarie, Australia
Subject: Pelican perched on an old wooden rowboat
Medium: Colour fine art photography
Process: Fuji Velvia film / Pentax 645 camera
Format: Landscape
Genre: Wildlife / shoreline narrative
Themes: Memory, boat, pelican, stillness, companionship, lake life
Edition: Limited edition of 5 prints plus up to 2 Artist Proofs
Print: Archival fine art pigment print on cotton rag paper
Certificate: Signed Certificate of Authenticity
‘The little wooden rowboat sat out on the lake as though moored in a time warp. It had been a long time since the old man, standing on the shore, had actually used it. After rain, he would wade out across the lake bed, toes squishing through the matted seaweed to bail it out. Sometimes give the painted wood a cursory clean. More often, though, he panned past it through his binoculars from the balcony of his lakeside home.’
From Paul’s short story ‘The pelican, the boat and Ellen’.
A pelican has made an old wooden rowboat its temporary perch.
The bird stands at one end of the boat while both are reflected in the still blue water of Lake Macquarie. Behind them, the distant shore becomes soft and secondary, leaving bird, boat and reflection to carry the photograph.
The boat already had a history before the pelican arrived. Its owner continued to care for it even after using it less often. That human story remains invisible in the photograph, but it changes what the boat represents: not simply an object, but something held through memory and habit.
Artist: Paul Foley
Collection: Australian Landscape Fine Art Photography
Title: The Pelican
Artwork: #0059
Location: Lake Macquarie, Australia
Subject: Pelican perched on an old wooden rowboat
Medium: Colour fine art photography
Process: Fuji Velvia film / Pentax 645 camera
Format: Landscape
Genre: Wildlife / shoreline narrative
Themes: Memory, boat, pelican, stillness, companionship, lake life
Edition: Limited edition of 5 prints plus up to 2 Artist Proofs
Print: Archival fine art pigment print on cotton rag paper
Certificate: Signed Certificate of Authenticity
