Mobius Arch At Dawn
Yes, I know it's just a postcard photo and that many people have taken this same image. But so what... I enjoyed the entire process of making the photo - getting up before sunrise, hiking to this location and scrambling to sit in the exact one spot that would get the arch with the snow-covered Lone Pine Peak centered beneath it. And I loved watching the light change... the magentas and blues of the dawn hour followed by the alpenglow on the peaks at sunrise.
I just came back from a week of hiking and photographing in the Eastern Sierras in California. These are the same mountains that hold incredible places like Yosemite NP, Kings Canyon NP, and Sequioia NP. And on the eastern side where I was, they present a formidable, steep, rugged range of mountain faces to the valley below.
We explored the Alabama Hills... a unique rocky landscape so beautiful it has been the setting for more than one hundred movies (mostly westerns). We hiked long trails to beautiful alpine lakes over 10,000 feet. We drove the Jeep over a narrow twisting mountain pass deep into the Sierras. And we witnessed stunning bright yellow cottonwood and aspen trees in full autumn color.
And, to make the trip just simply perfect, it had snowed a week before we arrived. It was the largest October snow in the Sierras in a decade. It made the photography even more enjoyable! Look for a few more images from the trip in the coming months!