Twilight Clouds, Unicorn Peak. Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park, California. July 3, 2006. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell. (Sales)

The story: Sometimes the light only gets interesting after the sun sets. On this early summer evening I was at the west end of Tuolumne Meadows taking photographs across the meadow to the northeast as the sun set over a period of an hour or more. Just after the list light left the peaks of Mts. Gibb and Dana, it struck this very high cloud formation to the southeast. This photograph also shows a condition that many August visitors to Tuolumne Meadows may not be aware of; during the early summer season there can be so much water in the meadow that one is tempted to refer to the area as Tuolumne Lake.
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