The Light at Isle Royale National Park
Every photographer eventually builds a list of images they have studied so carefully they can almost feel the conditions that produced them. The Northern Lights above Lake Superior, reflected in the still water off an Isle Royale shoreline, is on that list. It is the photograph that requires mosquitoes, a boat, advance planning, and the particular willingness to commit to a wilderness island in the middle of the largest freshwater lake in the world on the chance that the aurora will appear.