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A creekside camp seen from a fly fisher’s point of view. Water pours from a wooden channel beside tents, drying clothes, and a small fire.

A creekside camp seen from a fly fisher’s point of view.

Water pours from a wooden channel beside tents, drying clothes, and a small fire.

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From a first-person view at the creek’s edge, my hands hold a fly rod in the foreground, its line extending toward the camp on the far shore. The rushing creek fills the scene beneath a six-metre timber aqueduct, its rough, braced channel curving in a horseshoe around three canvas tents before dropping from the open end into a boulder-strewn pool. Wet, rust-coloured leaves cling to the dense forest floor; waders hang to dry beside the tents. Low valley fog gathers under a partly cloudy sunset. The black-and-white photograph has natural shadows, uneven light and modest film grain.

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