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Medicine Lake in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. Medicine Lake, however, is not really a lake. Instead, it is an area in which the Maligne River, flowing from Maligne Lake into the Athabasca River, backs up and suddenly disappears underground. During the summer months, when glacial meltwater runoff is intense, the lake fills to levels which fluctuate over time and with the runoff events. Like a bathtub that is filled too fast for it to drain, it becomes laden with water, forming a lake, until it can slowly drain as the runoff is reduced.

I guess I've had an off-and-on love affair with photography my whole life. My father was always taking pictures and movies when I was a kid growing up on Long Island, NY in the 1950s-60s, and he gave me my own Kodak Brownie camera when I was around 6 years old. I remember using it to take pictures of family events and a trip to Washington DC, back in 1958. I still have some of the pictures ....... somewhere. Photography moved to the back burner during high school, college, and law school, but I picked it up again after I graduated law school in 1979, moved to Washington DC, and began my legal career with the federal government. Being alone in a new city, I would take my camera wherever I went, and I was soon making my own prints in...