The best light often comes during or after photographically-challenging conditions. This view was no exception. It had rained for half of the day, hard at times, and I had been more or less pinned down, unable to do much photography. I watched and waited, ready to go, but it wasn’t until perhaps an hour before sunset that the rain finally stopped and it began to clear a bit.
I was camped just outside Yosemite’s eastern boundary, near Tioga Pass, so I quickly loaded up and went into the park. As I arrived in the Tuolumne Meadows area the clouds to the west were thinning and late-day light was staring to illuminate peaks, forest, and meadows, while the remaining clouds in the east made for a dramatic sky.
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” (Heyday Books) is available directly from him. Blog | Bluesky | Mastodon | Substack Notes | Flickr | Email
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