A white swan glides straight towards the camera across black, rippling water.

Narrative / Landscape

Still Water

A study of stillness, reflection and the hour before dark.

Year
2026
Frames
10

The concept

Still Water started as a simple exercise in shooting wildlife and slowly became something more personal: a series about patience, and about how a familiar place changes when the light starts to leave it.

A small figure in a pale dress stands with her back to the camera at the edge of a dark lake.
01 · The waterline
A swan's reflection breaks apart on cold blue water.
02 · Reflection, broken

The hour before dark

I kept coming back to the same stretch of water at the end of the day. The light drops fast there, and for a few minutes everything turns the same deep blue: the water, the trees, the birds.

I wanted the pictures to feel like that moment: quiet, slightly uneasy, as if something is about to happen.

Two ducks stand on the end of a wooden jetty against a pale dusk sky.
A young swan drifts alone on pale silver water.
A swan in profile on grey water, neck curved.
A swan turns its head back over its folded wings on dark water.

“Light creates visibility, but shadow defines form and feeling.”

A small dark waterbird sits at the centre of slow concentric ripples in near-black water.
A mallard-type duck stands on dry grass beside the lake.
A tangle of lichen-covered branches at the water's edge.