Yosemite's Timeless Gaze Exploration The horizon settles

The horizon settles

and the headlands stepping out to sea

137 feet at the head of the Capitol Creek Valley southwest of Aspen — one of the Elk Mountains' six fourteeners

He's been back many times in the years since

the palms above and the crowd below both reading as shapes

Yosemite's Timeless Gaze Exploration The horizon settlesTunnel View is the lookout at the east end of the Wawona Tunnel on Highway 41, opened in 1933 with the road. It's the single most photographed view of Yosemite Valley El Capitan rising 3,000 feet of granite on the left, Bridalveil Fall on the right, Half Dome holding center on the back wall. Tom shoots a morning when mist is rolling through the valley floor below the rim.