Barn, Foresta. Yosemite National Park, California. November 3, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell
As you drive down toward Yosemite Valley from the northern highway 120 entrance you can see the small village of Foresta below and to your right. Once it was surrounded by forest, and it will be again some day – but now the area is quite bare following a very intense forest fire there a few years ago. I’ve been intrigued by this barn for some time, and I’ve stopped more than once to photograph it.
Afternoon Shadows, El Capitan Meadow. Yosemite National Park, California. November 3, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell
This was not a shot I planned to take. I was in the Valley and on my way to another place where I planned to shoot in the early evening when I drove past this spot and saw the boundary between light and shadow falling across these trees. I quickly pulled over, grabbed my gear, set up the tripod and made a few exposures before the light disappeared.
Half Dome and Oak Branches, Autumn. Yosemite National Park, California. November 4, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell
A bit of a postcard shot, but sometimes one cannot resist… :-)
Yosemite Valley, Early Evening. Yosemite National Park, California. Novemer 3, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
This is a late afternoon / early evening photograph of a grove of trees beyond a recently-burned meadow, with low-angle light from the far end of the Valley illuminating the trees. Although the colors of the scene were quite interesting (intense greens and some fall foliage, with the saturated late light) I like the more classic quality of the black and white version.