Patience & Process

I shot this a year and a half ago from above Telluride CO looking east just before sunset. Sometimes I’m rushed to make a photo, but this time I wasn’t. All I wanted was for the sun to break through and hit the stand of white-trunked trees. Seconds earlier that shadow between the trees and the mountain had shrouded the entire foreground, and I hoped —- since without AI what else could I do —- that the clouds would move from overhead to the east and allow light to strike the trees without covering the bare rock of the mountain. I could have stood at this same spot and at the same time several days in a row and not been this lucky. If I had it to do again I would have moved a little lower to get the trees more central in the composition, but that would have taken some scrambling through the brush and over rocks down a steep hill. And I’d drunk some good wine, so this will do.