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Photographs: Sierra Nevada

Ghost Forest, Near Tawny Point

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Ghost Forest, Near Tawny Point
Ghost Forest, Near Tawny Point. John Muir Trail, Sequoia National Park, California. August 9, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

Black and white photograph of a high altitude “ghost forest” on the John Muir Trail near Tawny Point, Sequoia National Park. These dead trees are located right at timberline in the southern Sierra Nevada at an altitude of close to 12,000′. It appears that an older forest died and that a new one is in its infancy.

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Lower Young Lake Shoreline, Dusk

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Lower Young Lake Shoreline, Dusk
Lower Young Lake Shoreline, Dusk. Yosemite National Park, California. September 10, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

I spent several days in the Young Lakes area of the Yosemite Sierra Nevada back-country on a solo pack trip late last year. Although Young Lakes are very popular during the summer season and can be reached by a one-day roundtrip hike, this I was alone at the lake on a quiet evening following an afternoon of rainy weather.

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Sunset, Mount Dana and Mount Gibb

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Sunset, Mounts Dana and Gibb. Yosemite National Park, California. August 6, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell

I recently rediscovered this photograph taken on a spectacular evening in the Tuolumne Meadows area two years ago. I think it serves as a good example of the value of going back through old photographs from time to time. (I do this every year around the holiday season.) In this case, I had a particular subject in mind when I shot this scene – Mt. Dana, the peak to the left in this image. For that reason I had kept a version of the scene the aimed a bit more to the left and put that peak more clearly into the frame, and I had pretty much passed over this one in which the foreground creek leads the eye (my eye, anyway…) toward the beautiful light on Dana and the peak to the right, Mt. Gibb.