Exhibit Name: “Water: As I See It!” 

Picturing Nature is owned and operated by Dave Harrison. My interest in photography started when I received a Pentax 35mm camera back in 1972. Soon I was developing and printing my own black and white images. Over the years, life, family and work became my dominant focus as photography slowly became something I used to do. Once I retired, my interest in photography began to grow again and while hiking I began photographing landscape scenes with my cell phone. Since then, I’ve graduated to other digital cameras to capture my brand and perception of nature’s beauty. 

When I lived in the Poconos, I would often hike in the state parks, and I found myself fascinated by the streams I would encounter. I began to focus much of my picture taking on the water rushing by me. At first, it was the welcoming gurgle of the water as it tumbled over rocks and down small falls. Then I noticed that there could be fascinating reflections of the surrounding forest and sky above, if the light was right.  

This interest in “the water” grew and I began to anticipate how a scene of moving water might look to the camera by changing to a slow shutter speed, or to a fast shutter speed. I particularly like working with a slower shutter speed to capture the motion of the water as a blur, while not losing all of the details in the reflections and textures of the water. This exhibit features the images that I’ve captured while walking along the creeks in the greater Gettysburg area.