Cloud Shadows, Mount Winchell

Cloud Shadows, Mount Winchell
Cloud Shadows, Mount Winchell

Cloud Shadows, Mount Winchell. Kings Canyon National Park. August 13, 2005. © Copyright 2005 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Late-afternoon cloud shadows race across the west face of Mount Winchell, Sierra Nevada.

Mt. Winchell is just south of Bishop Pass on the crest of the Sierra Nevada. I was intrigued by the repeating diagonals in this image along with the cloud shadow.

(Technical note regarding this photograph. I am frequently asked about prints of this image. It is available as a print, but the size must be limited to approximately 12″ x 18″ dimensions because the photograph was made with an early digital camera that could not produce image quality equivalent to that produced by cameras that I use today. This quality is appropriate for many electronic and print uses.)

G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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Tioga Pass Meadow

TiogaMeadow1005|08|15: Meadow near Tioga Pass. Yosemite National Park. August 15, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
Meadow Near Tioga Pass. Yosemite National Park. August 15, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

Yesterday was a different sort of weather day in the Tioga Pass area; cloudy and raining the whole time I was there.

This picture shows the meadow just below Tioga Pass in an area where trees appear to have been knocked down by an avalanche long ago.

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Mt. Gibb Sunset (August 6, 2005)

MtGibbSunset2005|08|06: Mt. Gibb at Sunset. Yosemite National Park. August 6, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
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 at Sunset (August 6, 2005)

TiogaTarnSunset2005|08|06: Sunset at Tioga Pass. Yosemite National Park. August 6, 2005. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.
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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