My husband’s grandparents bought a cabin in Lewiston, a former logging town in Northern Michigan in the 1950’s. The cabin has changed little since then—there are no distractions like internet or television, just the views and sounds of East Twin Lake and its weekend cottage dwellers. Our five weeks spent at the lake in the summer of 2017 provided me time to let my mind wander. I walked, photographed, and thought about black and white photography—its ability to transform light into sparkling highlights and rich shadows, to allow us to question and examine reality, and to share how we see the world as individuals.