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This photo entails the collision of two-timed water droplets. The first droplet causes a splash to form a column into which the second droplet collides. In this case, the results remind me of a whale’s tail that has breached the water and is about to submerge. The photo was taken in 2019.

The genesis of the name “PVminer Pixs” starts with the region where I was born and raised in Northeastern Pennsylvania. It was known as the Panther Valley. After graduating college with a degree in geology, I became the 4th generation coal “Miner” at an anthracite mine near my hometown. Although my career resulted in moving west to other coalfields and in ultimately changing career paths to leadership roles in the electric utility industry, my roots and how my interest in photography developed was not forgotten. I remember my father having two cameras, which he carried to each family gathering and vacation. As a pre-teen, he took black and white photos with a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera. During my teenage years, he used an Argus...