Photographed in 2009 at what was once Braxmere Lodge, situated upon the southern end of Lake Taupo. Derek Henderson was drawn to the location for a number of reasons, obviously the isolation, the warm geothermal waters, the Japanese garden at the lodge and of course the light. The model Penny rests nonchalantly stretched out in the tepid water, her image floats ghostlike out toward the edge of the picture. The subject here is figure and light, and the context a shoot for a Mexican fashion magazine. Henderson felt that the place had a “kind of bohemian” flavour, not to mention the rumor that the poet Sam Hunt used to visit the lodge to write. One can almost imagine the poet and the muse entranced, and perhaps this is what the photograph conveys as well as projects.