Photograph: Shoreline Reflections, Tenaya Lake

Shoreline Reflections, Tenaya Lake

Posted on 03 July 2010

Shoreline Reflections, Tenaya Lake

Black and white photograph of silhouetted trees and boulders and their reflections lining a flooded section of the shoreline of Tenaya Lake.

During the time of peak snow melt many Sierra Nevada lakes overflow their borders and flood the surrounding meadows and forested areas. Although the water level was lower at the end of June when I made this photograph than it had been three weeks earlier during my first visit of the year to the area, many areas in the margins of the lake were flooded. (This, of course, makes the mosquito population very happy – and human visitors less so!) The early morning sun back-lights these closely spaced trees and the rocks ringing this quiet flooded area along the shoreline of the lake.

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