El Dorado Sunset Medium:Canvas I was in the middle

I was in the middle of nowhere on a 3-day solo backpacking trip in Desolation Wilderness

" I couldn't have asked for better conditions

set up my tripod and my camera and I waited

like an autumnal whisper begging me to stop

and unforgettable

El Dorado Sunset Medium:Canvas I was in the middleFor three long years, I dreamed of this moment. The perfect sunset where the South Fork American River feeds into Folsom Lake near El Dorado Hills. I visited this spot ten times over those years, always hoping, waiting for the sky to deliver what I knew it could. Each visit ending in disappointment. But today today was different. As I hiked down the familiar path, there was a strange stillness, as if the landscape itself knew something spectacular was