PHOTO OF THE DAY March 28, 2005  

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Where Olympic National Park, Washington
When 1990
Photographer James P. Blair

A mirror to a cloudy sky, Lake Crescent was created by the gouging of retreating Canadian ice sheets.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Old-Growth Forests: Will We Save Our Own?," September 1990, National Geographic magazine)


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