9:36AM, 10/21/2009 - Fish On Ice

It’s a departure from the usual images that get posted here.

I don’t always find the ice cases at the fish monger in Union Square full with fish, as they usually are the first to sell out. In fact, this is only the second time. The big line there didn’t give me much opportunity for thinking, so I just kept shooting without looking, until someone asked me if I was on line. I think it was their way of telling me I was holding things up. Fair enough.

It looks like a detail from an old master painting. I’m thinking Jean Frederic Bazille’s, Still Life with Fish, which, again, may be pushing the old master thing too far. But, that stripe of light across the fish just seems so surreal.