If you have spent time studying photographs — especially in monochrome — either among present day examples or in compositions from our past extending back now almost 200 years, you will have noticed recurring themes. These become stale and impotent with repetition and enter the realm of hackneyed ideas. They exist in their millions almost everywhere today. Images of reeds or branches alone and sticking out of water, casting shadows or not, make up one category with a tangled family tree. I have applied digital imagination and a bit of jazz to this historical motif hoping for resurrection and new birth.