For about four October sunrises in a row, I came to this place near my camp in this superb national forest and tried to get it at its best. It is surprising how much light varies from one day to the next, even under seemingly identical conditions of weather and time of day. You find out how much and how fast natural light changes when you are always racing it to find your quarry. This is especially true when you are working with transparency film, because its high contrast and short exposure scale exaggerate some of the changes. Even midday sun changes quickly enough that a view camera operator had better think twice about thinking twice. [See also: Maples and birches #2, White Mountains, New Hampshire 1985, another high point from one of those mornings, elsewhere in this gallery.]