Breaking Water Through the Mountains

Black and white photograph of a breathtaking mountainous vista overlooking Crater Lake in southern Oregon.... more

by Janice Sakry

Title

Breaking Water Through the Mountains

Artist

Janice Sakry

Medium

Photograph - Featured,photographs, Digital Art, Prints, Canvas, Metal, Acrylic, Framed

Description

Black and white photograph of a breathtaking mountainous vista overlooking Crater Lake in southern Oregon.

Look closely to see the distant motor boat breaking through these glass-like waters, leaving soft ripples in it's wake. Reflections of rocky mountain ridges high above are captured in this crystal clear volcanic basin, which was created many years ago.

Crater Lake is located in Klamath County, approximately 60 miles (97 km) northwest of the county seat of Klamath Falls, and about 80 miles (130 km) northeast of the city of Medford.

The lake is 5 by 6 miles (8 by 10 km) across with an average depth of 1,148 feet (350 m). Its maximum depth has been measured at 1,949 feet (594 m), which fluctuates slightly as the weather changes. On the basis of maximum depth, Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States, the second deepest in North America, after Great Slave Lake in Canada, and the tenth deepest lake in the world

Crater Lake is often cited as the seventh deepest lake in the world, but this ranking excludes Lake Vostok, which is situated under nearly 13,000 feet (4,000 m) of Antarctic ice, and the recent soundings of San Mart�n Lake, which is located on the border of Chile and Argentina.

However, on the basis of comparing average depths among the world's deepest lakes, Crater Lake becomes the deepest lake in the Western Hemisphere and the third deepest in the world. Comparing average depths among the world's lakes whose basins are entirely above sea level, Crater Lake is the deepest.
The caldera rim of Crater Lake ranges in elevation from 7,000 to 8,000 feet (2,100 to 2,400 m). 



Originally from northern Minnesota where winters are long, harsh - yet gorgeous - and where changing seasons fill the outdoors with spectacular color. As a photographer and artist, I deeply appreciate nature's creativity and have always marveled at it's beauty and unlimited spectrum of color. I enjoy capturing natural moments of life in pictures, and I'm forever learning new technologies to further expand my own creativity.

I think my interest in art and photography began before I was ten. As the second oldest in our family of five, and living quite a ways from town, I learned early on to use my creativity and imagination to keep busy. I was usually content as long as I had a project going. As a youngster, I was always either sewing, knitting, working on crafts, painting, drawing or creating toys from whatever was available.

My interest in photography began when my father gave me his little black box camera that he had as a child. It was the old Brownie model, made by Kodak. Through the years, I've had many other cameras and have taken countless photos and with today's digital technology, I've been able to build up quite a nice library of pictures.

With recent photo editing technologies, I have been able to merge my photography and my computer skills with my creativity and artistic instinct to create many new and fun images, some of which are included in my Fine Art America Gallery.

Now that my husband and I have recently retired, we have the freedom to travel and I am able to photograph many interesting and beautiful sites. In the years to come, I look forward to not only doing a lot more traveling, I want to learn more about the art of photography, and I want to further explore more of today's new and exciting digital photo art technologies. So far I have found retirement to be a very wonderful and fulfilling chapter of my life. I hope that my next chapter is as good, and that I will always be enriched by art and photography.

Janice Sakry

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April 27th, 2013