Tunnel Vision

The pullout at the east end of the Wawona Tunnel — completed by the National Park Service in 1933 as the finishing gesture of the Yosemite Valley Road — delivers one of the most celebrated views in American landscape photography: El Capitan to the left, Bridalveil Fall to the right, Half Dome at the far end of the valley, the whole arrangement framed by the tunnel portal as if by a proscenium. On a morning when fog still holds in the valley floor, the image becomes something the clear-day version is not: the granite walls emerge above the mist while the valley floor remains hidden, which removes the visual noise of roads and buildings and visitors and reduces the scene to its primary elements — stone, cloud, water, and the distance between them. Phase One medium format resolves the full tonal range from the bright fog in the valley to the lit faces of the walls above it, holding the detail in the granite and the softness of the mist in the same frame. The title plays both ways: the tunnel you came through, and the singular attention the view demands.

Publié dans : Landscape, Portfolio
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Tunnel Vision