This is a picture of Mount Baldy, a well-known, popular sand dune west of my hometown. On June 2, 2008, I took my camera to see what I might find at the dunes and along the shores of Lake Michigan which lie adjacent to the dunes.
It had rained the night before and what was left of that storm system is evidenced in the clouds in the picture. I was walking along the crest of the dune and then planned to walk the gentle slope toward the lake. The sand, which usually had multitudes of footprints from the visitors that frequented the dune, was a golden brown because of the abundant rain that had soaked it the night before and into the morning. If you look carefully you can see my footprints in the wet sand.
As I was heading toward the beach I turned and saw what you now see. That place, near where I grew up, has been one of the most cherished parts of my memories as a child, and as an adult, and the subject of so many of my pictures.
On that particular day I also shot pictures at Hudson Lake, Indiana nearly 20 miles away. You can find another part of this story on this website under Beach – Untitled #24 and the pictures of both in our Etsy Shop.