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Sukumar Fine Art Photography, Page, AZ (2026)

11/02/2024

In late September 2024, I joined Snowfox by Shikha on a trip to Adi Kailash and Om Parvat in the Pithoragarh Himalayas near the India-Nepal-Tibet tri-junction.

03/22/2024

Homage to Water on World Water Day.

05/27/2023

From the very first Reflected Sunset I photographed over ten years ago, I have been fascinated by that which is indirectly perceived: namely by reflections and shadows. These represent something that is there, yet in some sense not there: hidden layers of reality or even perhaps a different reality. Here I reflect upon a kind of indirect perception: the reflection. Sometimes I use the reflections as a palette for creating more whimsical works of fancy. Empire Light is a reflection in the hood of a car parked at the Empire State plaza in Albany, with minimal Photoshop processing. I am always struck by the capacity of the indirectly perceived to create pure abstracts, as in Empire Sprite, formed in the reflecting pool at the Empire State plaza in Albany.

Window reflections are interesting when they superimpose objects behind and in front of the window. In Fresnel View, the same effect was achieved by the fresnel mirror of a lighthouse along the Oregon coast. Of course, this can also be accomplished by reflections in water, as Spidey, where you see the hand of the model (the only part of the image perceived directly) reaching out to his reflection in the water. In Lily pad and hand, on the other hand, the hand is the reflections.

Reflections in shallow water can also add texture to an otherwise uninteresting image, as in Rock profile. Tide pools are an endless source of fascinating reflections in shallow water.

In Geyser pool abstract, photographed in Yellowstone, the reflected horizon adds a sense of perspective to the image. But in reality all objects are indirectly perceived through their effects, all images are formed by the reflection of light from objects; what we truly see is the light. But because we consciously recognize an image as a reflection or a shadow, we are encouraged to probe deeper, our minds engage with the image in an attempt to creatively interpret our vision, and in the process, a visual dialogue is set up between photographer and viewer. This, to me, is the essence of photographic art.