A False Perspective

The landscapes are so vast and the distances so great, that you get a false perspective. In the small picture, the lake looks like a cloud or a wall of mist. Even enlarged the photo gives you the impression that the lake is somehow floating in the air. The mountains in the background, with the snow, are the Wasatch Mountains around Salt Lake City, Utah. Visually, they are more than fifty miles away. They are almost seventy miles away by the nearest road. But time and distance mean absolutely nothing on the shores of the great inland sea.