Granite Domes and Trees, Morning. Yosemite National Park, California. August 12, 2011. © Copyright 2011 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Morning light on trees and glaciated ridges, Yosemite National Park.
It is now 11:23 p.m. PDT on Friday, August 12… and I just realized a few moments ago that I neglected to schedule the posting of a new photograph today! Before I left for Yosemite on this past Wednesday I thought I had placed a photograph in the queue for automatic posting today, but apparently not. As long as I complete this post in the next half hour or so, I won’t miss posting my daily photograph!
I made this photograph early today (Friday, August 12) as the first light was striking the glaciated ridges near Olmsted Point. I had arrived early enough to climb far up on the granite slopes above the famous overlook before the sun came up – I had a plan to photograph some of the solitary trees high on these granite slabs as the first light struck them. I accomplished that, and as I began to descend from this area I decided to make a few more photographs while I was up there. Across the nearby canyon is another ridge that is topped by the glacial erratics, the solitary boulders sitting on top of the rounded ridges and just about anywhere else in this part of Yosemite. The early light was coming across from the left and striking the tops of these ridges, but it had not yet struck the huge face of Clouds Rest, seen behind them.
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Ben, it was close! To be honest, I do understand that the world would most likely continue to spin on its access if I missed a post – but after posting a photograph every day for something like three or four years now, I would hate to miss one! In the end I think it was about 11:45 p.m. when I put this one up.
Barry, thanks for the comment. This is an example of one of those photographs that wasn’t exactly pre-visualized, though I did have some ideas like this sort of floating around in my mind, but which turned up because I had made a conscious effort to put myself in a place at a time when such scenes were a possibility.
Dan
Love the layering of light and shadow. Really beautifully seen.
Whew…I didn’t think you would make it.