Wide Blue Quiet, Sunbeams Over a Still Lake

Pacific Northwest Landscapes · horizontal

A wide view of a still lake at the edge of a forest, under a vivid deep-blue sky. Sunlight breaks from a low sun on the left, casting pale rays through scattered white and grey clouds. In the foreground, a rocky reddish shore is dotted with green scrubby plants, and a tall evergreen stands at the right. Dark tree-covered hills run along the far shore, and the water reflects the glowing horizon.

A collector wants this for the sky. It is a deep cobalt blue with sunbeams fanning out from a low sun, puffy clouds and feathery cirrus streaks, all above a perfectly still lake. The horizon sits low, so the sky takes about three-quarters of the wide frame. The rusty gravel shore and the tall evergreen at the right give the calm water a grounded edge. Plenty of lake photographs show water and trees. Fewer pair this much saturated blue with radiating light and such a wide, open view. The pull is mostly visual: a big, quiet, luminous sky.

Artwork by Omaste Witkowski.

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