Pine Tree, Granite Slabs, Evening Light. Yosemite National Park, California. September 8, 2014. © Copyright 2014 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Evening light rakes across stained granite slabs and pine trees

I spent the first ten days of September in the Sierra Nevada back county of Yosemite National Park, with a wonderful group of friends and photographers who share a long love affair with the Sierra in general and with this park in particular. Lucky me, and lucky us!

Near one of our camps there is a large bowl of glaciated granite slabs, stained with red mineral tones and marked by water flow and seepage lines. Such slabs are not only among the primary visual markers of the Yosemite Sierra, but they are places of incredible diversity if you look closely. The rock varies from flat or sculpted glacial polish to fractured and exfoliated slabs. Wherever there is a crack or a bit of organic material has collected, small plants and hardy trees take root. And the light plays across this terrain in myriad ways. Here the final moments of evening light glance across the granite and bowl and a small tree.

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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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