Today’s Photo of the Day is a beautiful sunset shot from Sentinel Dome by Cameron Grant. Cameron posted a great caption with the photo:
Perched high on the side of Sentinel Dome at sunset in June of 2010, I had descended a ways to get away from a group of HDR hating photo nerds (feel free to borrow that one). I settled next to this huge snow patch and set up for this shot. Glancing off to my right I realized that one slip would result in me sliding down the snow slope most likely to my death. This slope quickly steepened and then fell over a drop several hundred feet below. No one knew I was up here, and the photo nerds weren’t responsible for my well being or for that matter even aware I had disappeared. They were much to concerned with discussing lens types and f stops. I became very conscious of the inherent risk I was taking by trying to ‘take pretty pictures’. After the sun set I flipped on my headlamp and scampered back up the slabs to my pack and then descended to my camp site in the woods, just a little wiser and no worse for wear.
Awesome shot, Cameron. Great story to go along with the photo.
Photo by Cameron Grant.