Bonum Mane Noctis: El Cap Sunset
Greg titled this image "Bonum Mane Noctis" — the good morning of the night — a name that understands sunset not as an ending but as the moment just before a different kind of light begins. El Capitan's summit catches the last direct sun of the day in a color that has no useful name between gold and orange, while the valley floor below it has already moved into shadow — two separate light conditions separated by a few hundred vertical feet of granite. The image was made from El Capitan Meadow, the camera on a tripod, waiting for the color on the summit to intensify in the last minutes of direct illumination. The meadow itself was already dark when the shutter opened.
Greg titled this image "Bonum Mane Noctis" — the good morning of the night — a name that understands sunset not as an ending but as the moment just before a different kind of light begins. El Capitan's summit catches the last direct sun of the day in a color that has no useful name between gold and orange, while the valley floor below it has already moved into shadow — two separate light conditions separated by a few hundred vertical feet of granite. The image was made from El Capitan Meadow, the camera on a tripod, waiting for the color on the summit to intensify in the last minutes of direct illumination. The meadow itself was already dark when the shutter opened.