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©Forest and Evening Fog. Yosemite Valley, California. October 30, 2010. Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.

Evening fog drifts among forest trees of Yosemite Valley. (original upload file)

Yes, this was shot from Wawona Tunnel View...in the evening... while standing in a line of dozens of other photographers. Sigh. :-)

I've written before that I do not automatically go to Tunnel View in the evening. However, if I think something special might happen and I don't have another subject in mind I will sometimes join the tripod line. (I also sometimes find myself there on odd evenings when almost no one else is there, but that isa different story.) On this late-October day I had been having a great time photographing the misty, cloudy, and sometimes rainy landscape - perhaps among my favorite photography conditions in the Valley. As evening approached, I was pretty certain that the wet conditions and the falling temperatures would cause fog to appear among the trees on the Valley floor close to sunset, and I have some ideas about photographs of trees in this fog that I wanted to try.

So I went to Tunnel View, put a very long lens on my camera, and queued up along the stone wall at the overlook. Because I did not plan to photograph the traditional "valley view" at all, I did not worry too much about where I was in this throng - and I ended up in a spot from which the familiar view was slightly obstructed. But that was OK since I was going to be pointing my lens down. This fog is not an unusual phenomenon, but it is different every time it occurs. Sometimes it builds up high enough to hover around the upper reaches of El Capitan. Sometimes there will just be thin wisps up the center of the Valley. Sometimes it is almost stationary and sometimes it moves quickly. On this evening it started out slowly and somewhat thin, but soon a breeze began blowing the moist air up from the west and a long ribbon of fog developed along the north side of the Valley floor, and I focused my attention along the borders near the edges of the fog.

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Taken on: October 30, 2010

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Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/11.0, 0.4 sec, 300mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Lens:	EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
Aperture:	f/11.0
Exposure Time:	0.4
Focal Length:	300mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS4 Macintosh
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