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The Storm Ends

Image September 14, 2022 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

Yes, I’m still working my way through the photographs from our August backcountry photography expedition in the Eastern Sierra Nevada. The process is often an extended one for me. Typically there are a few images that jump out at me immediately. Then I begin to work on photographs that I was less sure about initially but which grow on me as I consider them. Finally there are photographs like this one that, from the start, seemed interesting but which I knew would take additional effort to bring to a presentable state. In this case, the light was quite challenging and this version of the photograph required considerable post-processing to get it to where I feel that it reflects what I saw and felt that evening.

We had walked in to our basecamp location (with packers bringing much of our gear) the previous day. Almost immediately after our arrival a tremendous monsoonal summer storm unloaded on us, pinning us down in our tents for hours. The challenging weather continued, albeit in less dramatic form, over the next 24 hours. On the second evening the clouds began to break a bit and it seemed like the sky might be getting lighter beyond the ridge to our west. We all headed out to photograph the transition, and we were not disappointed! As the clearing continued, fog drifted among the peaks and the last of the day’s sun illuminated clouds with sunset light.

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Mist in the Trees

Image August 27, 2022 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

Mist drifts among Eastern Sierra trees as a summer storm clears.

One this evening the storm finally cleared. Over the course of an hour or two the higher clouds thinned, and some promising light began to glow high above. I watched from an elevated rocky position as peaks began to appear intermittently and clouds of fog flowed back and forth across the landscape.

The fog seemed to be the result of the abundant atmospheric moisture from the rains of the past two days. At times it almost obscured all of the landscape that was above my position, but soon a breeze would push it this way and that, and trees and rocks and ridges were revealed. I was especially interested in mist drifting among trees just above me, and I photographed this bit of forest as the fog begin to thin again.

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Trees, Ridges, and Clearing Storm

Image August 25, 2022 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

Mist floats among ridges as a Sierra summer storm clears.

This is (yet another) photograph from the evening when our two days of rainy weather finally broke. The rain stopped, the clouds thinned, openings appeared, and fog drifted back and forth among the peaks and ridges as sunset approached. I found a high, exposed place with a clear view of the surrounding terrain and settled in to photograph the show.

To our south the terrain rose toward higher lakes and then to a long and jagged high ridge. At first the view in this direction was obscured by fog and clouds, but as the evening wore on gaps appeared. At times the sky was briefly visible and the more distant peaks began to appear a bit more clearly.

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Ridge, Fog, Sunset

Image August 23, 2022 G Dan Mitchell Leave a comment

Post-storm fog drifts among trees and domes at sunset, Ansel Adams Wilderness.

The clouds finally began to break up “for real” late on the second day of our recent Sierra Nevada backcountry stay. First the rain stopped, then we began to see a few thin spots in the clouds, and eventually faint areas of blue sky appeared above the peaks through a veil of mist. After more than twenty-four hours of rain, we were ready to head out and make some photographs!

I did not know what the evening would bring so I decided to walk to a high spot with a 360-degree view, from which I might photograph a range of subjects. As the clearing continued, clouds of fog rolled back and forth among the nearby ridges and through the forest. One moment I’d photograph mist in trees, and the next I would turn and photograph light breaking through among the peaks. This scene unfolded to my east as sunset light began to color the fog and clouds over lower ridges.

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The Storm Ends

Mist in the Trees

Trees, Ridges, and Clearing Storm

Ridge, Fog, Sunset

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