Professor Laura A. Watt's extraordinary and sensitive images of water will be featured on KQED's QUEST science and nature television program at 7:30 p.m. on March 17 on Channel 9.
Watt, a Professor of Environmental Studies and Planning, will be featured as part of the ongoing series of shorts, "YPOQ: Your Photos on QUEST," that is broadcast
alongside feature stories.
Watt's photographs, taken with a variety of cameras, including digital, medium format and Polaroid, at locations all over the Bay Area, explore water in its many forms. Watt lives on a boat at the Loch Lomond Marina and her close-up perspective on the Bay helped inspire the series of water images.
"I live on the water and spend as much time as possible out on it, and have become fascinated with photographing its changing colors and patterns and textures -- both out on the bay and wherever else I might find this precious substance," she wrote on her Flickr group where she shares her work with friends and fans.
"Considering the number and magnitude of complex water-related controversies facing our state, I believe this set of images reveals how deeply at the core of our lives water is, how it affects everything around us," Watt writes of her photographs.
To view Watt's series of 40 water images, visit
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lawatt/sets/72157611025942652/.
For details on the KQED QUEST feature on Watt's photographer, visit
http://www.flickr.com/groups/kqedquest/discuss/72157611572627862/.
For more information on Laura Watt, visit
http://www.sonoma.edu/ensp/faculty/laura_watt.html.
She can be reached at her SSU office at (707) 664-2722.
High-resolution versions of the photos are available upon request.
Professor Watt's slide show from the QUEST program can now be viewed at:
