Lake Powell, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Arizona. 26-5-1995.

It has been more than thirteen years since I stood alongside Highway 89 that connects Page and Kanab, and watched the stormy clouds over Lake Powell. I have always been somewhat resentful towards this artificial body of water for all the Anasazi cliff dwellings and all the canyons lost as a result of the Glen Canyon Dam construction. It has represented man's insatiable desire to dominate nature, and at what expense?

As I wrote for another photograph, "The global warming-induced droughts over the last several years have forced all but one of the boat ramps on Lake Powell to be closed in 2006. It's anyone's guess whether the water level in the lake will be sustainable in years to come. So it seems that Glen Canyon is making a come-back, and what you see in this photograph may soon become history."

Contax 167MT, Carl Zeiss Sonnar 135/2.8 MM, 1/700 sec, f/5.6, Fujichrome Velvia, 1B