The black-and-white photograph shows a steam plant with a tall building and high smokestack at the end of a grassy field. The smokestack has stripes at its top, almost like a lighthouse. Clouds appear on the horizon.

The black-and-white photograph shows a steam plant with a tall building and high smokestack at the end of a grassy field. The smokestack has stripes at its top, almost like a lighthouse. Clouds appear on the horizon.

Michael Burgholzer, a programmer, lives near Salzburg and has published poems and photographs in German language and American literary journals. He has won several local literary awards.