I’m using this image on the card for my solo show at the Rondout Savings Bank near Woodstock. In my artist’s statement, I explain that I try to find aspects of nature wherever I go. Most of the photos in the show are cityscapes. In some of them nature is expressed by a change in light just before dusk or in the way a glass building reflects the movement of clouds; and sometimes the night shadows that fill empty space between brick and cobblestone in a warehouse district represent the natural world. This photo of Cooper Lake is obviously not a cityscape, but I sort of built the show around it. It’s the nature touch stone at the center of the show and one of my favorites. I love the way shape expresses a mood here, and I hope the reverence I feel for this place is present in the image.