A metal boat-launch rail receding from a sandy shore into the calm water of Lake Tahoe, mountains on the far shore beneath a wide pale sky.

Plate VII of XII

The Slipway

Lake Tahoe, California, USA · 2022

Rails running out into the flat calm.

Master print

The flatness embraced rather than fought — the lake softened to a milky teal, the sky washed to pearl, the whole frame faded down to a hazy, overexposed memory of floating.