Kokanee Salmon — Framed Piece Print Size:14" x 11" the outcome already decided

the outcome already decided

the red eye vivid

the underside of each feather rendered with the kind of attention that only comes from watching these birds through many seasons

its spotted baby coat still visible

nostrils working

Kokanee Salmon — Framed Piece Print Size:14" x 11" the outcome already decidedTwo Kokanee Salmon the landlocked form of Sockeye hover over a gravel riverbed in their spawning colours: the body fully turned to the brilliant red that gives the Sockeye its common name, the head still grey green and hook jawed. The larger male leads, the female behind him, both in the final passage of their lives. The water column above them is rendered with the translucency of a clean mountain river, the gravel below as specific and individual as