I’ve seen this view, or something very similar, countless numbers of times. The sun setting beyond the horizon framing Lake Michigan and the ever-present lighthouse and pier in Michigan City, Indiana.
Taken in June 2008 this picture is one of many that I have taken of the sunsets, the waves, the lighthouse; from different angles, in different days and seasons of the year. There are times when I have gone to the lake to enjoy and, perhaps, photograph a sunset, that I have found, often, especially during the Spring and Summer months, that silent crowds will gather, enjoying the event in their own, unique ways.
Like most moments, but, for me, especially the grandeur of the sunsets, there are never two quite the same. I could be at exactly the same spot at any other given day and invariably something changes; the motion of the lake, the clouds. So many subtleties or greater changes, taken together, can give a completely different look, feel, impression, story than what seemed so evident before, is now so different.
It is such a beautiful, unfolding tale being told. We get to witness that moment, all those years ago, together.
Another picture taken that same evening that you can find in our Etsy Shop is Untitled #81.