This calm, quiet and peaceful photograph was made in the “quiet light” (thank you John Sexton) of a late afternoon when the sun had just passed over nearby mountain tops. The air is clear and cool at 5,400 feet elevation. The grasses are stock still. The water is flat as glass and captures the reflection of the background of the photograph. There is not a breath of wind in this scene. Tranquility reigns on this tiny tarn. Fifty feet behind me, the diesel motors of tractor trailers roar as they crest Washington Pass on Route 20. The mood and feeling of a photograph and the mood and feeling of a photograph when it is made may not often be the same.
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