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Round Spring

Posted by Craig McCord (Kansas City, United States) on 23 May 2013 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.

It is said that Missouri could easily be called the Spring State. It does have more than 2900 springs within its boundaries. Missouri is also called the Cave State. Where there are caves there are often springs. Both are features of karst terrain, a porous landscape in areas of limestone and dolomite bedrock, which is predominate in the southern half of Missouri. The image here of Round Spring is located just north of Eminence, Missouri in Shannon County. Round Spring is ranked 17th in the state with an impressive average flow of 33 million gallons per day. Years ago the spring was used by native peoples and was the site of a grist mill in early 1800’s, although there is no sign of the mill today. The Spring has been owned by the National Park Service since 1971.

To create this image, I positioned myself to take advantage of several compositional elements, including leading lines, diagonals, pattern repetition, triangle shapes, and other techniques to lead the eye into the image and give it depth. The log, curved repetition of the moss covered rocks, the angular shape of the blue spring and the diagonals of the left wall lead you to the mouth of the spring. The area around the spring does have some access limitations but it pays to really work a shot or location to get the most of compositional possibilities.

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