Mt. Gibb Sunset. Yosemite National Park. August 6, 2005. © Copyright Dan Mitchell.
After taking a lot of sunset pictures at Tioga Pass on August 6 I figured that I could finally start the long drive back to the Bay Area. I was wrong.
The beautiful light continued all the way down to Tuolumne Meadows and I couldn’t avoid stopping to take more pictures including this one of Mt. Gibb.
I got home quite late…
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Tioga Pass Tarn at Sunset. Yosemite National Park. August 6, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
I came over Tioga Pass last Saturday during the hour before sunset. I planned to re-take a picture of a small tarn below the parking lot at the pass. After completing that shot I happened to look behind me and saw the light on the distant peak over a different tarn.
I quickly moved the tripod and took a series of photos. This is a combination of two exposures, one set for the shaded foreground lake and the other for the distant ridge and sky.
(A tarn is a small, shallow alpine lake filled with snowmelt water, sometimes with no outlet stream.)
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Ridge. White Mountains. July 6, 2005. © Copyright Dan Mitchell.
Last Saturday I found myself with a free day in the town of Bishop in California’s Owens Valley east of the Sierra Nevada. I decided to follow the road up into the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest high in the White Mountains, the next range east of the Sierras.
I drove as far as the highest grove at over 11,000 feet, something like 12 miles out on a narrow dirt track. The road continues another four miles to a locked gate, beyond which are UC research facilities including one at the top of 14,000+ White Mountain.
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