Photograph: Snow Dusted Oaks, El Capitan Meadow

Snow Dusted Oaks, El Capitan Meadow

Posted on 23 January 2011

Snow Dusted Oaks, El Capitan Meadow

Snow dusts winter oak trees in El Capitan Meadow, Yosemite Valley.

A thick-trunk mature black oak fringed with snow stands in front of a grove of smaller oaks in El Capitan Meadow, Yosemite Valley. The small branches in the upper part of the tree are so thick that they almost create a cloud-like effect in this light, as the low angle winter sun leaves the Valley floor in shadow. A few leaves still remain on the lower branches of the tree.

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