From the footbridge across the dried out bed of the Kennecott River, just outside McCarthy, I made this 28mm wideangle image of the sweeping Kennecott Valley. In the far distance at the center of this picture, is the ghost mining town of Kennecott. My objective in making this picture was to offer a sense of Alaska's sweeping grandeur and the remoteness of the distant ghost town. This is a landscape photograph. To make this landscape work, I relate three layers of information to give the viewer a sense of perspective. I used a wideangle lens to stress the dry river bed in the foreground, relating it to the forests and distant mining town in the middle ground, as well as to the mountain range spread beneath the cloud-streaked deep blue sky in the background.