Forest & Ice - Boundary Waters, US Border

Two and a half million years ago there was one immense glacier that moved across the Boundary Waters from the Northeast Country of Northeast of what is now Hudson Bay, it gouged out fractured rock. Fifteen thousand years ago, this glacier began to retreat, depositing sand, silt, and gravel within a giant troughs. These deposits created barriers enclosing a series of deep basins along a drainage passageways. Chains of lakes were now connected with streams and isthmuses of land. I spent one afternoon on one of these lakes. Alone, without my dog, I watched two piliated woodpeckers travel from one island to another repeatedly. Snow fell; I put on an extra layer; I ate crunched corn and clambered on one of the rocks in the photograph. The longer I sat, the more the forest came into focus. The resulting image is six separate exposures made of one section of a lake throughout the day. I waited for the light to change and watched the ice on the lake freeze and thaw, birch trees from the forest appear and disappear, clouds move. The six separate transparencies were overlaid; no digital alterations to this image were made. This forest mural prints up to sixty inches wide. Prints as a mural up to 100 inches long. All panaromic sizes availabl