A black and white photograph of Lake Kapowsin in Pierce County, Washington on a foggy Winter day.
Per Wikipedia: Lake Kapowsin is a lake in Pierce County, Washington, about half way between Tacoma on Puget Sound, and Mount Rainier in the Cascade Mountains. The lake is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) long and 0.15โ0.5 miles (0.24โ0.80 km) wide, lying in a channel formed by meltwater from the Puget lobe of the Vashon glacier during the Pleistocene glaciation. A small unnamed island lies in the northern half of the lake. As indicated by a drowned forest in the lake and other evidence, the Puyallup River was inundated about 550 years ago by a lahar from Mount Rainier called the Electron Mudflow. The mudflow partially filled the channel (leading to its shallow, smooth bottom today) and blocked Ohop Creek’s outlet, forming present-day Lake Kapowsin.
Part of my Pacific Northwest black and white landscape photography series.
