This fly-in fishing camp was constructed upon the foundations of a salmon cannery, which was built more than 100 years ago. Relics of this cannery can still be found strewn about this camp. This gear was part of a machine that processed salmon. It was covered in red rust, and almost buried by the lush vegetation. By converting this image to black and white, I made the gear almost invisible. It seems as if it is there, yet also not quite there, just as the cannery itself. The era of commercial salmon fishing and processing is long gone from Admiralty Island. In fact, the entire 90 mile long island – the seventh largest island in the United States – is now mostly occupied by the Admiralty Island National Monument, a federally protected wilderness area. The camp itself is allowed to exist today because its builders purchased the land from the heirs of the cannery owners, a structure built and later abandoned long before the island became a National Monument.