Remembrance of Color
The snow starts falling in the Yosemite winter, first gently and then with insistence. Hours—or days—into the blizzard everything is white. Maybe there are a few shades of gray. But the world is essentially monchromatic. Color is a merely a memory evoked by a few details in this photograph: the rock behind the waterfall, the brown tint of the trunks of the trees on the lower left, and the green of fir trees showing through the whiteness.
July 18th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
[...] when I took these photos. For more pictures of Yosemite in winter check out these posts: Remembrance of Color, Sounds of Serenity, Magical Portals, Winter in Yosemite, Fog Rising, The Trickste [...]