While visiting New York, we stayed for a weekend at a secluded Victorian Resort known as the Mohonk Mountain House. Located in the Hudson Valley just 90 minutes from New York, Mohonk was founded in 1869, and today its 265 rooms sprawl across the crest of Shawangunk Ridge along Mohonk Lake. Looming on a cliff over that lake is a tower, offering hikers a view of numerous neighboring states. I made this image of that tower at the moment the moon drew equal to its cupola, just as the setting sun turned the limestone ridge to a deep reddish gold color. Less than a minute after I made this image, the light faded from the cliff. This image echoes a prime maxim of landscape photography – be there when the light is on the edge, just before it goes away.