Light Dusting
Location: Yosemite Valley, Ca
Field Notes: Canon EOS 1, 85mm 1/20 sec @ f/22 ISO 50
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The winter of 2007 was a very dry one. I was living in the Sierra Nevada at the time, and literally, every day I had off, I would drive the 2.5 hours to Yosemite Valley. Every time I went, it was either raining, sunny, or overcast. I would go to sleep in the back of my car with hopes of waking up to a blanket of snow over the valley floor only to wake up to sunny skies.
It wasn’t until February, that a significant storm would hit Yosemite. I decided to tell my boss that I was planning on being sick on Thursday and Friday, packed my car and headed to Yosemite.
I woke up to the most beautiful sight I could of imagined. The valley was covered in 2 feet of snow, and it was all untouched. I grabbed my camera and set out before the morning light to see what I could find. As I roamed the valley floor, I watched as clouds clung to the valley walls, and the early light was turning the granite on El Cap a bright yellow. I had walked by this scene 3 times before I actually saw it. I stopped and set up my camera literally on the yellow line in the middle of the road and snapped off about 10 shots, before the clouds lifted and the harsh direct sunlight brought the granite back to grey.
-Jeffrey Murray
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