The photographs I'm submitting, made along a stream near my home in Waterville, Maine, began as meditations on nature: quiet observations of the water and what was reflected, refracted, and shadowed upon its surface. The title is a stanza from American poet Wallace Stevens's "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." The poem invokes, among other themes, the idea that as nature we are all connected—the flora and fauna, the air above and the ground below. "A man and a woman are one," he wrote, "A man and a woman and a blackbird are one." Harmony is evoked in these photographs through both their formal construction and their titling, which perhaps is best explained by the inverse. If the river were not moving, the blackbird would not be flying—and all that implies.