The Minarets

This is one of my all-time favorite photographs taken in one of my all-time favorite places. We were coming down from the plateau at the summit of Donahue Pass, out of Yosemite and into the glacial moraine at the beginning of the Ansel Adams Wilderness when this vista presented itself: just right with a cloud shadow right over the Minarets, silhouetting them in front of the roiling sky.

The Minarets are those distant sharp peaks to the right of center in the background that are named for the architectural minarets they resemble.