Posted in the film gallery, this image manifested itself in the Eastern Sierras one lovely Fall afternoon after much study and contemplation, the patience for which I may never have found if not for a freak accident the day before when I tore the nail off my pinky toe. Not being able to comfortably walk seldom pays such dividends in landscape photography.
One of my favorite images thus far this year was made along Cascade Creek in Yosemite National Park during the upswing of spring snowmelt. I’d scouted the area a week earlier on a trip with my daughter. I was confident in the photograph and had considered that my camera’s placement would be a bit risky. But despite the precautions, I wasn’t prepared for what happened.
The image to the right captures a right-of-passage every photographer goes through at some point or another. Read the full story and see the final print.
