First Light, Tioga Meadows
Posted on 05 August 2010
First Light, Tioga Meadows
First Light, Tioga Meadows. Yosemite National Park, California. July 24, 2010. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
The first morning light touches trees at the edge of Tioga Meadows, Yosemite National Park.
I always enjoy photographing the light at the edges of shadows as they move across the landscape early and late in the day, and I especially like the way that this light can gradually pick out subjects like these trees against a still-unlit background. With this in mind I was near Tioga Pass early in the morning as the light began to work its way down into Tioga Meadow as the sun rose above the ridges of Mounts Dana and Gibbs.
A bit of an ironic note: I was so focused on the light and the trees that I failed to notice that two deer were grazing in the scene until I began working on the photograph after returning home! If you look very closely you may be able to find one that is right at the shadow/sun edge, but I’d be surprised if anyone can find the second one.
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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, and night photography.
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Beautiful as always Dan, sure wish I was there in any light right now.
Thanks, Patsy – hopefully you will get there before long!
Dan
Very well done Dan — this has a great feeling.
Thanks, Michael. I’m a sucker for the light/shadow borders, and some beautiful light hits these trees and the edge of the meadow as the sun comes up over Mt. Dana.
Great sense of mood to this image and no, I tried to find the second deer and couldn’t. Heck, I couldn’t even see the first one, but I’ll take your word for it. Great Capture!
Thanks, Edward. It is very hard to spot them in this small image. The “hidden” one is in the deeper shadows at the upper left.
Dan