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.
After visiting the Wawona Tunnel viewpoint for decades – spring, summer, fall, and winter – I’ve become interested in what the visitors do when they arrive here.
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.
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