Three Trees, Sunrise
“Three Trees, Sunrise” — Three trees at Tuolumne Meadows in hazy sunrise light.
In mid-September I had the opportunity to spend a few days camping and photographing in the Tuolumne Meadows area. On two of. those mornings I wandered into Tuolumne Meadows before sunrise. There was fog one day — not the one in this photograph — and haze from wildfire smoke on both. Here the trees, being close to the camera, have some intense color from the sunrise light, but the haze mutes the distant landscape and shifts its colors.
Some amount of wildfire smoke seems to just come with the terrify in September and October in the Sierra, at least until a first good storm arrives. At its worst, the smoke can be thick enough to be very unhealthy and extremely difficult to photograph. But much of the time it can lend an interesting muted color to everything, as it does here.
Three Trees, Sunrise
“Three Trees, Sunrise” — Three trees at Tuolumne Meadows in hazy sunrise light.
In mid-September I had the opportunity to spend a few days camping and photographing in the Tuolumne Meadows area. On two of. those mornings I wandered into Tuolumne Meadows before sunrise. There was fog one day — not the one in this photograph — and haze from wildfire smoke on both. Here the trees, being close to the camera, have some intense color from the sunrise light, but the haze mutes the distant landscape and shifts its colors.
Some amount of wildfire smoke seems to just come with the terrify in September and October in the Sierra, at least until a first good storm arrives. At its worst, the smoke can be thick enough to be very unhealthy and extremely difficult to photograph. But much of the time it can lend an interesting muted color to everything, as it does here.