I keep a file of interesting pictures I run across online or in magazine or pamphlets, as references for drawings and paintings. Sometimes these pictures indicate where they were taken, and sometimes they don’t.
One of my favorite paintings of my own was done years ago. It’s of an interesting shoreline, with an early morning lighting. I think the reference photo was in some travel pamphlet. I didn’t keep the photo I worked from, and I didn’t take note of what the location was. But it had always intrigued me. And I wondered where it was.
I always thought that the shoreline was distinctive. But I didn’t have an idea of where to look for it. I had a vague idea that it was somewhere along the Pacific Northwest, but wasn’t sure where.
Recently the cycle of wallpaper pictures that my laptop brings up when I turn it on showed an image that looked rather familiar. In a way. It’s of Ecola State Park in Oregon. The interesting thing about it is that the view it shows is a reverse angle of the painting’s point of view.
I admit, I’m intrigued that I was able to recognize the location from the reverse angle, especially as I’ve never been to the actual site. But it is fun to have to place identified now.
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