Alpine Meadow and Lake, Sierra Crest. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
The Sierra Nevada crest beyond an alpine meadow and lake
A short walk from our backcountry camp was a higher meadow that we visited almost every day, morning and/or evening. In this unusually wet year the meadow was green and full of wildflower, with water running strongly in the creek and the areas around the tarn muddy with standing run-off.
The meadow and its flowers were the first attractions of this spot, but the more I visited it and watched the light on the higher peaks, the more they came to fascinate me. The central peak in the photograph stands apart from the main ridge, and for this reason it picks up direct sun from morning until evening. I made this photograph in the evening, when the direct light had already left the meadow (shadowed by a nearby ridge) and remnant thunder-storm clouds filled the sky.
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