Time, Tide and Place: A Coastal Fly Fisher’s Chronicle

Photographs and Fishing Reports by Ted Hendrickson

Fly fishing has often inspired artists and writers to capture their feelings for the sport in their art. In this unusual volume, Ted Hendrickson’s photographic craftsmanship and familiarity with local waters allow us a window into the world of an artist/angler. Landscape photographs chronicle moments spent fishing the coast of Southern New England. Accompanying e-mail reports give us a glimpse of the adventures (and misadventures) of each angling season. Inspired by the work of Nineteenth Century photographer William Henry Jackson, who also made landscapes with anglers plying their craft, Hendrickson puts a fishing figure in each scene. As he describes his goals in the introduction: “I wanted to maintain the documentary style of my art and suggest both the mundane and sublime moments of fishing… Since I often fish alone, I am the angler in each photograph.” The text and images combine into a highly personal fishing journal and photographic album, of interest to anyone who appreciates a sense of place and the rhythms of the natural world.

Published by Flat Hammock Press