The Story Behind This Shot

A windless sunrise at Maroon Creek Lake below the Maroon Bells, where the bowl above holds so still that the waterline nearly disappears. Bands of gold aspen and dark evergreen stack up the cliff face and repeat themselves perfectly in the water. Mornings this calm in Aspen, Colorado are rare and short, usually gone with the first breath of wind. Printed large, the symmetry does the work, and the piece reads as abstract as it does literal.