The 100 Day Project #41

Fine Lines

Tucson, Arizona, 2013

The 100 Day Project, Day 41

This photograph was made inside an aquarium at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, just outside of Tucson — in the middle of the Sonoran Desert. Finding an aquarium in a desert is unexpected, a small miracle.

Mike and I were at the museum for a tour. We were considering having our wedding reception there because so many friends and family would be coming from out of state.

The deep blues were particularly hypnotic in this frame. A coral reaching upward into an impossibly saturated blue. A single thin white line crossing the frame above it — so fine, so precise, it reads almost like a horizon, or a threshold. I love the restraint of it.

I am drawn to minimalism in photography for the same reason I am drawn to it in life. When everything unnecessary is removed, what remains is nearly always exactly enough.

About the 100 Day Project: A global creative challenge where thousands of artists share a piece of their practice every single day for 100 days. I'm joining creatives around the world, and I'm excited to bring you along. Each day I'll be sharing one of my photos — some recent, some old, and some from my current project — along with the story behind it: where I was, who I was with, and why I love it.