Still Waters

While I was travelling around the Olympic Peninsula during the winter, news came on the radio that a fierce storm was expected by midnight. At twilight the air was still; as I followed the shore of Lake Crescent, clouds were quietly massing above the mountains.

The lake was dead calm--unusual for a deep lake that normally generates a strong chop. When I reached this dock, the scene cried out for a photograph. I love the composition of the diagonal lines formed by the dock and the distant mountains--plus the feeling of absolute silence created by the calm before the storm. It is a photograph that invites repeated contemplation.

Several years after I took this photograph, the dock was removed; as far as I know, it has still not been replaced.

Lee Rentz