Lake and Pines

Sometime in the late 1950s or early 1960s, someone stood at the edge of a mountain lake, a tall pine framing the right side of the frame, and took a photograph that looks almost too beautiful to be accidental. A calm blue lake stretches across the middle distance, a snow-dusted peak rises behind the tree line, and a cluster of period station wagons sits quietly in a parking area beside a rustic lodge - proof that people have always known exactly where to go when they need to breathe. Shot on Anscochrome transparency film, a beloved mid-century rival to Kodachrome with its own distinctly cool, dreamy palette, this slide has held onto every detail of that mountain afternoon for sixty-plus years without complaint. Lake and Pines is a print for the cabin dreamers, the mountain lovers, and everyone who has ever looked at a lake through a stand of tall pines and felt immediately, completely at home.