Project: Book
Subject: Fishing

Fishing has always been a passion of mine. As a young boy my father and I would often share time by driving to one of the many picturesque bodies of water that surround our central New York home where we would spend the day fishing. There we would relax, share some laughs, enjoy nature and occasionally even catch a fish. My father was not exactly an expert angler or outdoorsman. We didn't have a boat and our tackle seldom consisted of more than a sinker and a simple hook tipped with a worm that we most likely had plucked from our own yard the night before. Many times while I would sit anxiously awaiting a tap at the end of my line, my father would give me cursing lessons as he worked a tangled mess of line line on his ten dollar reel.
I wouldn't have had it any other way.
Somewhere close by as we were sharing this moment there were other fathers and sons, grandfathers and granddaughters and others having their own versions of this experience. Some may have been in the middle of a lake on a big expensive fishing boat, some in the middle of a stream wearing a pair of waders but we all shared a common bond, the love of fishing.
There is something about the experience that strips away all that is artificial exposing the true core of the individual, an honest moment.
It is this moment that I wish to capture and preserve.

Douglas Lloyd