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Yosemite Landscapes in Color

A selection of images from Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy Valleys to the High Country. Most images available for commercial licensing and many as fine art prints up to 24x36 inches. Prints available as museum/exhibition quality fine giclees on 100% cotton rag art paper, exhibition baryta papers or Crystal Archive/Kodak Endura, signed and numbered in limited editions. Smaller, unsigned, open editions also available for some images.
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Alpenglow on Fletcher Peak from Vogelsang High Sierra Camp. This is not a sunset. True alpenglow occurs about 30-45 min after the sun has dropped below the horizon, and the sun's rays are scattered and refracted along the earth's atmosphere by high ice crystals or water vapor. This event happens more often in winter and only rarely occurs during the summer. When it does, the mountains or sky can begin to glow with a soft salmon pink, almost glowing from within just at the time the stars begin to appear in the sky.<br /> <br /> Limited Edition 9x12 available.
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Alpenglow on Fletcher Peak from Vogelsang High Sierra Camp. This is not a sunset. True alpenglow occurs about 30-45 min after the sun has dropped below the horizon, and the sun's rays are scattered and refracted along the earth's atmosphere by high ice crystals or water vapor. This event happens more often in winter and only rarely occurs during the summer. When it does, the mountains or sky can begin to glow with a soft salmon pink, almost glowing from within just at the time the stars begin to appear in the sky.

Limited Edition 9x12 available.

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  • New Twist on the "Sierra Wave"
  • Yosemite Falls, Spring Morning.
  • El Capitan Reflections. Copyright, ©2005 James McGrew
  • Pohono and Ponderosa Pine.
  • Hikers on Half Dome. Copyright, 2009, James McGrew
  • "Midnight Clearing Snowstorm." ©2001 James McGrew. Snow fell on Yosemite Valley for several straight days in March, 2001. On the night of a full moon, I watched the satellite image on line from home in Mariposa. I realized that the storm would break sometime in the middle of the night so I drove up to Yosemite Valley, arriving a little after midnight. By 1:30 am, the storm cleared and moonlight shone down on fresh fallen snow and clouds swirling over the valley walls.
  • Alpenglow on Fletcher Peak from Vogelsang High Sierra Camp. This is not a sunset. True alpenglow occurs about 30-45 min after the sun has dropped below the horizon, and the sun's rays are scattered and refracted along the earth's atmosphere by high ice crystals or water vapor. This event happens more often in winter and only rarely occurs during the summer. When it does, the mountains or sky can begin to glow with a soft salmon pink, almost glowing from within just at the time the stars begin to appear in the sky.<br /> <br /> Limited Edition 9x12 available.
  • Sunset Over Unicorn and Echo Peaks. Copyright, ©2009, James McGrew
  • Sunset in Tuolumne Meadows. ©2006, James McGrew. People talked about this sunset for days in Tuolumne that summer. Thunderstorms poured down rain all afternoon and suddenly the western sky lit up with fiery colors. People throughout Tuolumne stopped their activities and ran out into the meadows to watch the spectacular colors glowing up from beneath the thunder clouds.<br /> <br /> 12x16 and 8x10 editions available
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  • Sunset Colors over Yosemite Valley and Indian Hemp.
  • Twilight Cloud Dance over Half Dome. ©2009, James McGrew
  • Yosemite Falls, Soft Amber Glow. ©2005 James McGrew. Afternoon thunderstorms cleared at sunset and the dissipating clouds diffused and reflected the light of the setting sun. For a brief time, the entire valley was flooded in soft amber light.
  • March Sunset on the Valley Rim. ©2010, James McGrew
  • Near the Summit of Mt. Conness. Copyright, ©2006 James McGrew
  • After a Spring Snowfall. ©2011, James McGrew
  • Glacial Erratics on Pothole Dome.
  • Lone Pine and Fog.
  • Sequence of Moon Passing Through a Total Lunar Eclipse as viewed from Yosemite, August 2007. At about 3:00 am, some friends woke me from my sleep to watch the lunar eclipse together. We gathered in a rocky amphitheater at 9,400 ft elevation to watch the event over Yosemite's High Country.
  • Spring Flooding/Sunset and the Cathedral Rocks. Copyright, ©2006 James McGrew
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