Looking up, the world is reduced to a crescent of sunlight between the cliff walls the river has carved over the eons of time.
Ahead, around the next bend, the river is a trail that you cannot lose. Follow upstream, clothing wet, water sloshing in your hiking boots, and who knows what you’ll find?
[This photo: 18mm in 35mm terms, 2.5 seconds at f/22 and ISO 100, tripod mounted.]
It’s a long way down from the top of Nevada Falls. It made me dizzy to take to take this photo.
I like the sense of being in some kind of bowl – in fact the geology around Nevada Falls has made a giant punch bowl of sorts. You can see the far edges of the “bowl” with the run-off waterfalls coming down in the picture.
An unusual amount of water due to the season and this wet, wet year in the Sierra.
I’m posting this photo from a trip I made a few weeks ago because I am getting so bored with working *for real* – it would be nice to be back in Yosemite.
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