NOVEMBER SUNRISE, CLEAR LAKE by Michael Harris

NOVEMBER SUNRISE, CLEAR LAKE by Michael Harris

I’ve spent a lot of my life in the Kawartha’s, on the west shore of Clear Lake — summers as a child, weekends as an adult with jobs in Toronto — but I never lived here through all the seasons until the last fifteen years. Much has changed. The snakes, frogs, turtles, mayflies, and swallows that were everywhere seventy years ago, are scarce now. The perch, sunfish, and rock bass that thrived under the dock are long gone. But many things haven’t changed, or haven’t changed yet — the canopy of trees, the loons, the air with its distinctive scent. We seem to be, and maybe we have always been, at an inflection point. I try to keep my camera handy, as I am often surprised by sudden tricks of light or movement that turn some familiar views into something quite different. The November morning sunrise photo that I’ve entered here was one of those moments, also an inflection point, when the clouds, the lake, the wind, the waterfowl, and the sun itself were all in a precarious balance at the day’s dawning.

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Michael Harris
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