The night before, I camped outside the town of Bishop, California in the Eastern Sierra. I woke up to an overcast sky thinking it was a bust. I didn't know what to expect for sunrise. Then like a light switch the morning light pierced the storm clouds, illuminating Mt Humphrey and Basin Mountain of the Eastern Sierra in the richest vermilion. As the band of light swept across the range the clouds also lit up in a blaze of color with the perfect blooming yellow rabbitbrush framing the foreground. I had to pull over again and again to photography the scene as the show kept getting better.
As the legendary photographer Galen Rowell said, the Eastern Sierra were his favorite place on earth because it's where the light and the mountains meet so dramatically. That morning proved exactly why.
This photograph captures the phenomenon "Range of Light" with the fleeting moments of light, weather, and landscape. Bringing the mountain beauty straight to your home as fine art.