Cascade Creek – Trees and Mist. Yosemite National Park, California. June 5, 2010. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
The spring torrent of cascade creek fills its narrow canyon with mist behind trees growing among the rocks.
I’ve been sitting on this second photograph of Cascade Creek, shot back near the beginning of June, trying to make some decisions about cropping and so forth. I finally have decided that I think I like this somewhat unusual (for me, at least) square format for this image.
Cascade Creek crosses beneath Big Oak Flat Road as it descends toward the Merced River and Yosemite Valley. For a few weeks during the spring snow melt season it can turn into a powerfully flowing stream, whose power is amplified by the steep descent and narrowness of the rock channel it follows.
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All the more beautiful for the challenges it presented !!
Thanks to both of you! It is a very complex scene, but that is part of the fun of photographing it. (That and the difficult light!) For me the trees are really the major thing in the scene – perhaps surprisingly, they catch my attention more than the waterfall.
Dan
Original, indeed. I Like the dynamic. I love how the trees create windows and each window offers something different.
Love it, Dan !