While the sun rose, the surface of the lake remained calm and pristine. I loved the reflection of the clouds on the water, but I wasn’t able to find a framing that kept the drab, muddy shoreline on the right out of the frame while still capturing the beautiful clouds reflected in the water, so the images I captured with 4×5 were different angles altogether. I will hopefully have those slides back from the lab next week so that I can scan them.
In the mean time, I’ve launched a Kickstarter project to raise funds to pay for a display of my art work, which will be at Canal Street Coffee in Fremont. Ed Millman at AdServices is drum-scanning images for me, and he will also be printing them. We’ll have six 24×30’s to show, and if everything works out, one of them (maybe two) will be a metal print.
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I frequently see crew teams practicing on the Washington Shipping Canal on my way to and from work, but one morning last week stood out. One because the sun was just rising, and also because the water was so calm. The gull in the corner was fortuitous, but I like the balance that it adds to the scene.
Even when it isn’t vibrant and colorful, dawn can be quite beautiful.
When we were camping at Blanca Lake, this is what I awoke to find. The fog was dense, but burned off quickly once the sun rose over the ridge. It’s a good reason to avoid camping in a valley with a lake or river; the katabatic winds carry cool air down into the bottom of the valley, or in this case the cirque, and can lead to a temperature differential of 10 degrees or more between the valley floor and the valley rim, leading to the term “frost pocket.”
Of course, it isn’t always feasible to avoid camping on the valley floor, and on hot nights, it can be like air conditioning.
In this case, the camp site was lovely and tranquil, but the cirque walls were densely forested as well as steep, so the only place to camp was along the lake shore. The result was a chilly night, giving me a chance to put my new Mountain Laurel Designs Spirit quilt to the test, which it passed.
