Posted by Ed Kiser on March 21, 2005 at 07:52:54 from 64.12.116.6 user Kisered.
If you look at SUNDAY's offering on
www.lakelancan.co.uk
at the last picture of that collection, you get a nicely framed shot from the south-west part of the lake, looking north-east towards Wild Cat Island. To the left is (one can imagine) the Horseshoe Bay. At the southern tip of the bay, relatively close to the camera is Pike Rock, even though it looks like a stump.
At least, with a bit of imagination, that seems like what we are looking at.
Amazing how REAL these stories seem to be, and the characters too. It is sometimes difficult to remember that it is all fiction. He made them real, and based so much of what they did on real locations, that when we see those locations, the feeling that somehow, those characters were real all along, too. The locations are there, sometimes we find them in strange places, relatively speaking, as he may have moved some things around in "his lake" but the places in his stories seem so real, because so much of his "places" are indeed, quite real. How marvelous to look at Tony Richards's photos and be able to say, "I know that place..." because we were there, in the book that made that place so real to us.
Do enjoy the photo. Good shot of a very real place.
Ed Kiser, South Florida