Pac-Persons
Lake Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
2024
I was going to say these lily pads reminded me of the early video game Pac-Man, but in today’s lingo I guess the name would be more inclusive. Besides, back in the day, subsequent to Pac-Man, there was also a Ms. Pac-Man game introduced as well and who am I to speculate on the gender of these particular lily pads.
Name of the title aside (I don’t have a better one) , I like the play of the reflections on the surface of the lilies that are partially submerged. The overall composition of the slightly darker surface water, then the “dry” surface of the lilies, with the partially submerged lilies surface reflections contribute to a slightly 3 dimensional effect.
Thanks for the thoughtful comments on the photo, always appreciated. Sometimes I think I do an image some injustice with my flip titles and comments. The titles and comments in fact are quite often not even related to the reason I took and like the photograph. That’s certainly true in this case. I guess perhaps the best way to think about the titles and comments is that they are often inspired by but not related to the images in any meaningful way. To use a word I generally avoid due to its misuse, they are odd juxtapositions of ideas. They are non sequiturs of sorts. That I can’t help myself in doing that potential disservice to an image is probably related to why I like Zippy cartoons so much.
Pac-peeps?
That works too!