I made this image as primarily a landscape photograph of Glacier Bay, appropriately using a diving whale as a foreground “anchor” for my image. The surface of the water is as smooth as glass, reflecting the blue sky, white clouds, and massive mountain range. While the whale’s body is nearly vertical as it plunges to the depths of Glacier Bay, its tail remains horizontal, echoing the horizontal thrusts of the ripples in the water, the distant shoreline, and the rows of mountains and clouds above it.