Rocks, Stump, Spring Runoff – Tenaya Creek. Yosemite Valley, California. May 9, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Tenaya Creek spring runoff flows over and onto rocks and tree stumps, Yosemite Valley.

This is one more in my sequence of photographs of spring runoff flow in Tenaya Creek below Mirror Lake in Yosemite Valley – photographs made during the second weekend of May. In this one I thought I would combine the flow over the streambed rocks with the water running up against the more or less immovable object of the old tree stump. The colors in the water are a combination of the intrinsic green of the water itself, the colors of the rocks over which the creek flows, and light reflected from sunlit vegetation on the opposite bank of the creek.

This photograph is not in the public domain. It may not be used on websites, blogs, or in any other media without explicit advance permission from G Dan Mitchell.

keywords: california, sierra nevada, travel, Yosemite, valley, national park, tenaya, creek, stream, flow, runoff, melt, water, rock, stump, tree, trunk, usa, nature, landscape, scenic, season, spring, blur, abstract, sierra, nevada, mountain, range, stock, lichen, green