Tioga Tarn and Kuna Crest at Sunset. Yosemite National Park. July 8, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
This small tarn is just below Tioga Pass on the Yosemite side of the divide. I stop here almost every time I cross the pass, and I’ve seen it in many different conditions: rain, midday sun, sunset, thunderstorms.
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Olmsted Erratic. Yosemite National Park. August 13, 2004. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
Feeling lazy this morning, I have posted an older photo that is a favorite.
Olmsted Point is the renowned Yosemite high country overlook on the Tioga Pass Road. In one direction you see Clouds Rest and Half Dome, in the other the famous view of Tenaya Lake and the domes and peaks beyond.
These glacial erratics (rocks left behind by a retreating glacier) are a short walk from the parking lot. Spectacular thunderstorms were developing all over the Sierra on this afternoon.
Unfortunately, as much as I like this photo it will never make a very large print. It was taken on a camera that does not provide an extremely sharp image and a significant amount of cropping was necessary.
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Fletcher Lake Detail. Yosemite National Park. August 27, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
This is a somewhat different version of a shot I posted a couple of days ago. It shows some late-season greenery at Fletcher Lake in Yosemite’s backcountry.
Because of the wide dynamic range between the sunlit rocky slopes in the background and the shaded lake in the foreground, this image is a combination of two photos shot at different exposures. I created two Photoshop layers, each containing one of the original RAW files as a “smart object” so that I could edit them in the RAW converter before using masks and some other tricks to combine them.
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Fletcher Lake and Vogelsang Peak. Yosemite National Park. August 27, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
This is another photo from last weekend’s pack trip out of Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park. This picture was taken at sunset and includes the lower end of Fletcher Lake in the foreground and Vogelsang Peak in the distance, slightly obscured by haze from a nearby forest fire.
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