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Solstice Evening - 24" x 36"

For years, I tried to always spend summer solstice camping in 'the park'. I look forward to this particular day because it gives me the most hours of daylight of any day of the year. But this day in June also comes at a price in the form of the thousands of mosquitoes waiting for me back at the campsite, at day's end.

This painting is the result of an evening on Burnt Island Lake in 1998. We were still looking for a campsite when we had to stop to shoot this scene. As we did, we could clearly hear a moose splashing along the darkened shore but could not see it from so far away. The next morning, this same shore was bathed in warm morning sunshine. As we paddled back along that same water's edge, we actually spotted the moose's submerged tracks, still evident in about 8 inches of crystal clear water.

 

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