I have started to immerse colour negatives into the water collected when the photograph was made. Before I did this I photographed the water in the glass containers by itself. Water is transparent, but its surface reflects the surrounding light, enabling us to see reflections which mirror the surroundings. When the surface tension is broken by the water travelling over falls or around rocks, we can appreciate the colour of the water, which is largely caused by suspended particles being carried along by it.
The Yarra River – Birrarung is renowned for being a muddy brown colour as it flows through Melbourne – Naarm. This colour and the colour of the falls is caused by the presence of fine particles and sediment within the water. My water samples reflect this and the changing nature of the water as it flows down the river. The water samples are shown below, but I was fascinated how they change as you moved downstream:
