Forest Trail

Posted on 12 December 2009

A path winds through a grove of large trees along Tioga Pass Road, Yosemite National Park, California.

I was on my way home from a backpacking trip in the Tuolumne Meadows region in September when it started to become cloudy – conditions I like for shooting during the day in the forest. I found a place to pull over along Tioga Pass Road – I think it was near a trail that might run between White Wolf and Lukens Lake, but I’m not certain – and I found this quiet section of forest full of large trees and open ground.

This photograph is not in the public domain and may not be used on websites, blogs, or in other media without advance permission from G Dan Mitchell.

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Category: Photographs: Central California, Photographs: Nature, Photographs: Northern California, Photographs: Sierra Nevada, Photographs: Yosemite

3 comments to Forest Trail

Joshua

says:

December 12, 2009 at 11:33 am

Wow, I wanna see this bigger. It looks so clean; as if it had been taken in a studio. Not much post processing, right? I suppose the cloud did the magic.

G Dan Mitchell

says:

December 12, 2009 at 12:37 pm

Thanks! I think this one would work well large. Not much post processing – just a bit of work dealing with some of the very bright highlights where the sky is visible and on one or two rocks, and a bit of lifting of mid-tones in the main part of the photo along with white balancing.

Dan