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Snow on the boulders of the Merced, with El Capitan on the left and Cathedral Rocks standing over the far end of the valley — Yosemite on a winter morning after a storm had cleared. Overnight the snow had grown a coat of feathered crystals: surface hoar, which forms only on cold, still, humid nights and lasts until the first wind or direct sun finds it. I worked low and close to the water to keep that texture in the near frame.
Valley View puts two very different clocks in a single frame. The granite is roughly 100 million years old, cooled miles underground and later lifted and stripped bare; glaciers grinding through the valley in the ice ages squared off its sides and left El Capitan's face standing about 3,000 feet (900 m) above the river. The crystals in the foreground took one night to build and were gone by afternoon.
A note on presentation: black-and-white landscape has traditionally lived on a matte surface, where tone and texture do the work. On a glossy surface the same image becomes something else — dimensional, luminous, contemporary. Metal spans the full range from matte through semi-gloss to gloss; they are different objects rather than better and worse.
ChromaLuxe Metal — Dye-sublimation gives the lit snow real brightness against dense shadow, and the hoar crystals in the foreground keep their edge rather than merging. White Glossy is the high-gloss white base that amplifies colour, and the most popular choice for vibrancy; White Semi-Glossy gives a soft shine with rich colour; White Matte holds colour vivid with minimal glare.
Also available in: Standard Acrylic version · TruLife Acrylic version · Gallery Metal version · Fine Art Paper version
Made to order · Allow 2–3 weeks for production and delivery · Shipping charged at cost, never marked up · Shipping & Returns
The watermark shown here protects the online image only. Your print arrives clean.
Snow on the boulders of the Merced, with El Capitan on the left and Cathedral Rocks standing over the far end of the valley — Yosemite on a winter morning after a storm had cleared. Overnight the snow had grown a coat of feathered crystals: surface hoar, which forms only on cold, still, humid nights and lasts until the first wind or direct sun finds it. I worked low and close to the water to keep that texture in the near frame.
Valley View puts two very different clocks in a single frame. The granite is roughly 100 million years old, cooled miles underground and later lifted and stripped bare; glaciers grinding through the valley in the ice ages squared off its sides and left El Capitan's face standing about 3,000 feet (900 m) above the river. The crystals in the foreground took one night to build and were gone by afternoon.
A note on presentation: black-and-white landscape has traditionally lived on a matte surface, where tone and texture do the work. On a glossy surface the same image becomes something else — dimensional, luminous, contemporary. Metal spans the full range from matte through semi-gloss to gloss; they are different objects rather than better and worse.
ChromaLuxe Metal — Dye-sublimation gives the lit snow real brightness against dense shadow, and the hoar crystals in the foreground keep their edge rather than merging. White Glossy is the high-gloss white base that amplifies colour, and the most popular choice for vibrancy; White Semi-Glossy gives a soft shine with rich colour; White Matte holds colour vivid with minimal glare.
Also available in: Standard Acrylic version · TruLife Acrylic version · Gallery Metal version · Fine Art Paper version
Made to order · Allow 2–3 weeks for production and delivery · Shipping charged at cost, never marked up · Shipping & Returns
The watermark shown here protects the online image only. Your print arrives clean.