Shoreline Boulders and Trees, Morning. Yosemite National Park. September 18, 2011. © Copyright 2011 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Bright morning light on boulders and trees along the shoreline of a subalpine lake in the back-country of Yosemite National Park.
This is yet another photograph in morning light at this subalpine Sierra Nevada lake where I spent several days in mid-September earlier this year. Like many lakes in this part of the Yosemite back-country, the shoreline is quite rocky, with lots of rocks and boulders left over from the period of glaciation. Here several very large boulders crowd against shoreline trees and plant, and the slopes of the far side of the lake are visible across the water, where trees and plants ascend rock slopes toward a talus field and then a much taller ridge.
These views across alpine Sierra lakes are always compelling. Whenever I camp at such a lake, the area near my campsite becomes my temporary home, and at first the other side of the lake often seems a bit mysterious… until I take the time, often early in the morning or in the evening, to do a circumnavigation of the lake along its shoreline.
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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Robin, I hadn’t noticed that, but I see what you are mentioning. I’m afraid it is just a dried up branch!
Dan
Just beautiful…. it’s kind of Christmas-like in its bright cheerfulness.
Towards the bottom-left, near the pool, behind the shrub: is that a rock formation with a dried-up shrub or is an elk resting there?