Oct 28, 2009

Quiet Cold


Today finds me at Crater Lake in Oregon. Not physically, but revived in memory of time spent there through this photograph.

As both of my parents worked within the education system, our summers were free to camp and travel as a family and before I reached adulthood, I was blessed to have gotten to most of the U.S. states having been cross country more than once.

That travel continued as an early adult in my career as a corporate photographer and I would often extend assignments to get to special wild places when I could. This spot was one that I experienced as both a child and adult. When I was young, I remembered being amazed at the deep, deep blue color (as it is feed only by snow melt) and the incredible depth (at 1,943 ft. it is the deepest in the U.S. and 7th in the world). As an adult, what most struck me was the calming quiet. Arriving here at 1st light during a driving trip up the west coast, the soft, light breeze and natural beauty were my only companions from this vantage point.

When looking up facts for this blog about the lake, I couldn't help but notice that the photo on the Nps website http://www.nps.gov/crla/index.htm was taken from almost the same spot as mine. I prefer my own though for as when the sun broke from the horizon, a small grouping of trees in the foreground received just a hint of light, separating them out and creating the depth of distance I wanted.