Facing The Abyss, Baiting The Hook

And waiting for it all to go off

My son Matthew has taught himself film photography (he made his bathroom into a darkroom), and is getting really good at it. He sent me this overnight. It’s a fisherman on the banks of the Danube. But the black of the water is so thick and textured that it made me think of a philosopher staring into the abyss, and baiting his hook, trying to pull someth…