At 3,000 feet from base to summit El Capitan is the largest exposed granite monolith on earth — a fact that the mind accepts intellectually and the body refuses to fully process when standing at its base, the sheer vertical face rising above with a scale that recalibrates every previous understanding of what the word "large" means. El Capitan Reflected approaches that scale from a different angle entirely: from the valley floor beside the Merced River, where a still pool captures the entire vertical sweep of the monolith in perfect reflection, the granite face reproduced in the water with a clarity and a completeness that allows the eye to take in the full height of El Capitan — both the real and the reflected — in a single, sustained visual experience that is as close as a two-dimensional image can come to conveying the true scale of this extraordinary geological feature. The spring palette is rich and fully alive — the fresh green of the valley floor trees framing the monolith on either side, the blue sky scattered with white cloud above, the still pool in the foreground carrying all of it in reflection with the particular luminous quality of water that is perfectly calm and perfectly clear. The pine trees frame the upper portion of the composition with their dark, graceful forms, and a fallen branch in the immediate foreground grounds the image in the specific, intimate detail of the valley floor — the near and the vast existing in the same frame with a natural, unhurried harmony. This is El Capitan as the valley sees it — not from the air, not from the rim, but from the floor, reflected in the river that has been running at its base since the glaciers that carved it finally retreated. A natural companion to Tunnel View — Yosemite Fine Art Print and Giant Sequoia — Yosemite Fine Art Print, El Capitan Reflected completes a Yosemite collection of exceptional range — the iconic valley view, the ancient forest, and now the valley's most legendary geological feature seen in its most compositionally extraordinary expression. Available as a limited edition of 50 worldwide on ChromaLuxe Metal, Lumachrome HD TruLife Acrylic, or DuraPlaq® FloatPlaqs. Photo © copyright by Tamara Gooch.

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