Lake, Peaks, Morning Light. © Copyright 2019 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Early morning light reflected in the water of an alpine Sierra Nevada backcountry lake.
Yes, I am still mining the vein of photography from that week-long Sierra backcountry trip with a fine group of fellow artists — the “first light gang” and a few other good folks who joined us on this year’s adventure. We spent a week in a beautiful 11,000′ subalpine valley, a place filled with meadows, rocks, and water; and surrounded by high peak and lots of beautiful, rocky lakes. The peak in this photograph dominated the view from our camp, and it figures in much of the work we brought back from the trip.
A relatively short distance above our camp, just up a hill and on the other side of a low saddle, there was a rockbound subalpine lake whose shoreline ran up against the base of this peak. I’m pretty sure that we all made multiple trips up there, often in the very early morning, hoping to work with the first light of the day. On this occasion I arrived before the sunrise light touched the peaks, and I then continued to photograph as it worked its way down the rocky terrain.
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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