A subalpine meadow of lupine below conifers at Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, with morning light on lifting fog.

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Sol Duc Falls in Olympic National Park, Washington, seen from the footbridge, with morning light coming down through the forest.

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Edition of 23. Two earlier unnumbered prints exist; twenty-five in total.

I was camped off trail, and I'd put the tent up the evening before in a torrential downpour. Nothing dried out all night because it never stopped raining and never warmed up. Somewhere in a night like that you start asking why you do this at all when the odds are you won't get a shot anyway. The morning answered it.