Dogs on Rooftop, Kenyon Street NW, Pleasant Plains, Washington DC 2012

Two dogs spend their day on the rooftop of Morgan’s Seafood on Kenyon Street, Pleasant Plains, Washington DC. From the series ‘405 Miles to Chesapeake Bay’.

From its secluded and humble beginnings in the mountains of West Virginia, the Potomac River meanders its way east on its journey to the Atlantic Coast. Coursing through steep ravines and over rock strewn river beds in its upper reaches, the initially humble appearance of the river gradually increases in its expanse as it flows on and on, down the Potomac Valley.

Providing the conduit for a great variety of communities along its path, the river slowly builds in its presence on the American landscape, collecting the waters of smaller tributaries and providing the life source for the economic activities that have flourished for generations.

Coal miners, lumber workers, fishermen, farmers and hunters in the rivers western watershed, are connected to politicians, lawmakers and larger industry in its eastern expanse by the Potomac as it carves its path farther and farther east, through the nations capital Washington DC, on it’s 405 mile journey to Chesapeake Bay.

405 Miles to Chesapeake Bay, produced in the late fall of 2012, uses the Potomac River as a reference point, a common thread, for the portrait and landscape images within.