Snowmelt Pond, Sunset. Yosemite National Park, California. July 8, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Sunset sky reflected in a Tuolumne Meadows early-summer snowmelt pond.
On a more typical Tuolumne visit than the one I experienced last week, this might have been the first photograph I would have shared. If you have followed my posts during the past few days, however, you know that I was fortunate to photograph a very atypical evening two days after I made this photograph – and I’ve been focusing on those images from this visit first.
This photograph was made two nights earlier, on the first evening of my Tuolumne Meadows visit. The location is at the edge of an extensive meltwater pool near the west end of the Meadows, a spot where I like to photograph early in the season. The distant ridge holds Ragged Peak (near Young Lakes), the distant tip of Mount Conness, and other peaks to the north of the Meadow.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
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You are welcome and one of these years I hope to do just that. Get out there and go to those ponds. Do you know, I have never, ever been to them. I’ve driven by but I haven’t done much more than that. Thanks for the tip!
Thanks, Cynthia. If you get up there early in the season – June or very early July – look for these ponds at the west end of the meadow.
I love the cloud reflections in the water. Another nice one!