I shot this photograph while on a canoe and backpacking trip into the waters of Ouetico in Cananda. I had arisen early one morning, hoping to get close enough to photograph a nest of bald eagles high atop a tree on an island across from our camp. It was cool and damp. The early morning mist rose off the warm lake water like translucent ghosts of light. I paddled out to a rock in the middle of the lake, set up the tripod with the Nikon and began shooting the eagles circling above me. I had taken a young boy, named Kevin, with me from our camp. I was teaching him how to use the camera. We looked around us at the eagles, spiders dancing on webs beaded up with morning dew, and the trees as their leaves were turning from the lush green of spring to the red ocher of early autmn. Suddenly, the light changed as the sun came up. I noticed the mist dissolving above these four lily pads. The visual effect is a photograph that lies somewhere between a realistic image and an impressionistic painting.

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