Shoreline Rocks, Sierra Nevada. Yosemite National Park, California. September 17, 2011. © Copyright 2011 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Small plants grow on rocks near the shoreline of a sub-alpine Sierra Nevada Lake, Yosemite National Park.
Little gardens grow in these jumbles of rocks and boulders near the outlet stream of this sub-alpine lake where I spent nearly four days this past September. During this mid-September time frame the colors of the high country autumn are beginning to appear, as seen in the orange and brown colors of some of the leaves on the plants among the rocks.
I arrived at this lake late in the day, the rest of my party having arrived there earlier. They had the advantage of a pack train to carry most of their gear up here, but I was self-contained and schlepping the whole mess of backpacking and photography gear myself. I was beat when I arrived, and I first thought that I might just write off doing any photography that evening and just rest up and recuperate. But I started to feel a bit guilty about my laziness in the evening, and I went for a walk around the outlet stream of the nearby creek and made a few photographs in the soft evening light.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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Hi David, and thanks for you comment and observations. Interesting comment about the water, as I was pondering that earlier today. I think that my notion at the time was to shoot it tight, so it will have to live as it is.
I did have to use a relatively long lens to shoot this as the rocks were some distance from the shore and I wanted a close enough image to clearly see the leaves and the lichen.
Hey, it is only a two day walk – I need to go back again!
Dan
This little granite surrounded rock garden is so wonderfully typical of the Sierra, but this one is probably more pleasing as a photographic composition than others. The smooth water in the background is inviting, color complimentary and adds so much that I would like to see more of it in the image, but I don’t know what other limitations there were in that regard.
Liking your work, and your commentary….although I get around DV a lot more the you do…
Thanks, Vincent. I love DeVa, too – and I’ve been shooting there during the past decade or so. However, I do have to admit that my main subject is probably the Sierra. :-)
Take care,
Dan