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Late Summer, Townsley Lake and Choo-Choo Ridge

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Late Summer, Townsley Lake and Choo-Choo Ridge

Late Summer, Townsley Lake and Choo-Choo Ridge. Yosemite National Park, California. September 7, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Late season afternoon light shines across the lower slopes of Fletcher Peak and meadows surrounding Townsley Lake, with Choo-Choo Ridge in the distance. Yosemite National Park, California.

Townsley is a small open lake in an open valley a short walk up from Fletcher Lake in the Yosemite National Park backcountry near Vogelsang High Sierra camp. It is a spot fairly familiar to me from my many trips into this portion of the park, and my favorite time is near the end of the summer season and the start of autumn when the meadows go brown and golden and everything slows in preparation for winter. In this photograph the bushes are still green even though the grasses and small plants have begun to go dormant. Beyond the bench at the lower end of the lake and across the valley is Choo-Choo Ridge.

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Shoreline Rocks, Fletcher Lake

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Shoreline Rocks, Fletcher Lake

Shoreline Rocks, Fletcher Lake. Yosemite National Park, California. September 8, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Rocks along the shoreline of Fletcher Lake, with mixed forest and meadow rising up the lower slopes of Fletcher Peak – Yosemite National Park, California.

Yes, another in the series – again from my early September photography trek to the Fletcher Lake area in Yosemite. (For those who may wonder, I’m getting close to the end of this string of photographs of the shoreline of Fletcher Lake.) In this one it was not only the morning light and the interesting textures on the far shoreline that attracted me, but also the circle of rocks in the still water and just offshore.

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Photographs: Sierra Nevada, Photographs: Yosemite

Shoreline Detail, Fletcher Lake

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Shoreline Detail, Fletcher Lake

Shoreline Detail, Fletcher Lake. Yosemite National Park, California. September 9, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Rocky shoreline of Fletcher Lake and reflections in early morning light – Yosemite National Park, California.

Yet another in the series of morning photographs made in early September 2008 during my brief photographic expedition to Fletcher Lake and surrounding areas in the Yosemite National Park backcountry. Here oblique morning light strikes rocks, bushes, and a small shoreline meadow along the shoreline of the lake.

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Shoreline Trees and Reflections, Fletcher Lake

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Shoreline Trees and Reflections, Fletcher Lake

Shoreline Trees and Reflections, Fletcher Lake. Yosemite National Park, California. September 9, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Shoreline trees, grasses, and rocks catch the morning sunlight and are reflected in Fletcher Lake, Yosemite National Park, California.

This photograph is from near the outlet stream of Fletcher Lake, very close to the Vogelsang High Sierra Camp. Early morning light is beginning to flow around the base of Fletcher Peak and strike the rocks and vegetation along the shoreline right below the peak. This is one of a series of photographs I made on this morning as I wandered around this lake in the early light.

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