The Yanqi Lake Series
What starts as a simple moment can shift one’s path entirely, and that’s precisely what Yanqi Lake was for me. This remote, icy destination just north of Beijing served as a quiet, thought-provoking backdrop that changed the way I thought as a photographer.
LIMITED EDITION PRINT - Yanqi Lake is located about 35 miles northeast of Beijing, at the foot of the Yanshan Mountains, and during the warmer months is a popular recreational area. When I visited during a very cold, breezy January in 2013, the lake had frozen over and there were just a couple of hardy locals ice fishing, sitting slouched on buckets, holding their poles. The surface of the lake exhibited fascinating cracks and fissures, with colors ranging from ice white to dark green.
LIMITED EDITION PRINT - Yanqi Lake is located about 35 miles northeast of Beijing, at the foot of the Yanshan Mountains, and during the warmer months is a popular recreational area. When I visited during a very cold, breezy January in 2013, the lake had frozen over and there were just a couple of hardy locals ice fishing, sitting slouched on buckets, holding their poles. The surface of the lake exhibited fascinating cracks and fissures, with colors ranging from ice white to dark green. In this image, on the windswept ice, remain the compacted snow imprints from a fisherman's footsteps.
LIMITED EDITION PRINT - I am continually fascinated by the images that I made during a visit I made to Yanqi Lake, north of Beijing and close to the Great Wall, during the winter in 2013. The lake was frozen over, with here and there a local sitting on a bucket, fishing through the ice. The ice at the surface of the lake exhibited fascinating cracks and fissures, with colors ranging from ice white to dark green. This image illustrates the darker end of that spectrum, heavy dark green with traced white lines of the frozen fissures. Faint smudges to the right of the image reveal the earlier passage of human feet.