Time got away from me this month, and I realized over the weekend that I needed to finalize the pictures for the rotating exhibit, like, weeks ago, and get myself to the frame shop, like, now.  So I’ve been working on these for the past couple of nights and sent the rest of them to the printer today with the hope that I can get them framed this weekend.

I still don’t know any details about where my photos will be hung, but I have been assured that they will go up in July somewhere in town.

I decided to go with a theme for these pictures, rather than just collecting some random images together, and my first theme would be these images of slow water and rocks that I took in Yosemite National Park in April.  It was the most wonderful trip, but I’ve been so busy since I got home that I have barely had time to process anything.  This was my first real chance to sort through, image by image, and post-process.  But it was only about 200 or so of the 5200 photos that I took on that trip.  (!)

I intended to do six to ten of them, all in black & white or warm black & white, but as I was wading around knee-deep in the pictures, I realized that there was too much color to let it go.  I still have three monochrome images that are part of the exhibit, but the rest are subtly colorful rocks & water.

No, the colors are too good to drop.

These were all taken on the same trail, Mirror Lake, which is lovely in the spring.  I was there in the early morning before the sun was too high, and I probably spent two hours just taking pictures of the water and rocks of Tenaya Creek, which is at the base of Half Dome.  So gorgeous!

The only problem was the sign at the beginning of the trail that warned of mountain lions.  As I was snapping away, I kept looking over my shoulder, certain I was being stalked.

I have more images from the upcoming mini-exhibit in a set on my Flickr page.