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CAPTURING LIFE ON THE WATER
A Q & A WITH CHESAPEAKE BAY PHOTOGRAPHER JAY FLEMING By Mary McCarthy
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M ARCH 2020
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hether it’s the simple reflection of a boat hull on the water, the worn face of a lifelong waterman
on a Chesapeake island, or a family of nesting brown pelicans captured down to the detail of their eye color, Jay Fleming’s photos illustrate life on the Chesapeake Bay like no other photographer past or present. Like the watermen that often surround him and are depicted in his book Working the Water, Jay works the water by spending countless hours on it himself. He rises with the sun and often spends full days in its rays until it sets.
