Peak power

摘要

Hokusai, eat your heart out. Here, the iconic Japanese artist's woodcut waves are transformed into the real deal. In the North American autumn, Arctic air meets warmer air from the south, creating the perfect conditions for storms. Wind rages around all of the Great Lakes at this time of year, but Lake Erie, pictured here, is the shallowest and contains the least water. This means its waves are typically the biggest as it is more easily influenced by the wind. As the wind blows, the waves start to build a beat, rhythmically sloshing back and forth along the lake's roughly east-west axis, and growing in height as they do.