Warnock Lake, Atchison, KS, 2010. I used to drive out to almost this same spot back in high school just to watch the silhouettes of the trees in front of the setting sun. There were more trees on the horizon at that time if I remember correctly.. I think that’s one of my ultimate influences for making silhouette art.

Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon
Like a magician extended his golden wand o’er the landscape;
Twinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest
Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline