On the Water
The Patient Fisherman
A quiet moment on the water—and a memory worth holding onto.
Sometimes you don’t have to go far to get away.
A quiet morning on Lake Allatoona transformed into an expressive study of stillness, reflection, and the restorative feeling of being on the water.
Winfield Scott State Park, Georgia
Expressive painterly
The Original Moment
The Patient Fisherman began with a photograph of my oldest son fishing from a dock during a family camping trip. It was an ordinary moment at the time: a child, a fishing pole, still water, and nowhere else we needed to be.
Photography has always been a way for me to hold onto moments I might otherwise forget. As my children have grown, some of those photographs have taken on entirely new meaning. Images that once documented everyday family life now feel like tiny windows into another time. The Patient Fisherman is one of those images.
From Photograph to Art
Years later, the photograph became something more.
I transformed the original image into a painterly piece that emphasizes the feeling I remember more than the details of the photograph—the stillness of the water, the solitude of the dock, and the simple patience of a child waiting for a fish to bite.
For me, it’s about childhood, patience, family adventures, and how quickly ordinary moments become memories. Transforming the photograph into art gave me a way to revisit that memory—not exactly as the camera captured it, but as I remember it.
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