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Reaching for the Stars

A view of Mount Hood from Trillium Lake on a starry summer night

Made at Trillium Lake on a summer night, beneath Mount Hood and a fully visible Milky Way. The photograph is a single ten-second exposure: long enough to draw the stars, the mountain, and a faint band of green and red light on the northern horizon into one frame, and long enough that the figure had to hold completely still to remain part of it. She stands on a rock at the water’s edge; the camera sits low in the lake itself. What reads as a quiet, fixed scene is in fact ten seconds of held breath—movement stopped, light gathered, a moment kept. The work belongs to a tradition of night photography, where the camera records more of the sky than the eye alone can see.