The passage of time
Marks us all differently
But leaves none behind

I took this photo at the same time as the ones in my last post. It was a lovely sunset and as the light started to fade afterward, the lake started to become quite ethereal and very beautiful so I used my tripod and an ND filter to take a longer exposure to try to capture the remaining light in the scene.

A long exposure means using a slow shutter speed and that also helps to blur the appearance of water so getting the timing right was a bit of a juggling act as I still wanted to include some motion in the image rather than have the water be totally still. I settled for about 1.5 seconds in the end and it worked well – it feels dreamy but not too dreamy and I really like the final image.

It also made me think about the idea of time slowing and passing and how it changes us all, which inspired the haiku.

Photo and haiku © CJ Levinson 2016