Summit Awakening

Captured in the quiet hours of early morning, this black-and-white photograph reveals Mount Whitney—the tallest peak (14,505 feet) in the contiguous United States—bathed in fleeting light. The scene was taken with my Hasselblad 500cm medium format camera on Kodak T-Max 100 film, chosen for its exquisite tonal range and clarity. The rugged road in the foreground leads the eye upward to the luminous granite crown of the Sierra Nevada, where clouds drift silently overhead. The drama of light and shadow conveys both the monumental scale of Whitney’s granite face and the solitude of the high desert landscape. This image is part of my continuing exploration of the Sierra Nevada’s timeless beauty, a study in contrasts between earth and sky, light and darkness, silence and grandeur.

“Summit Awakening” is offered as a signed and numbered fine art print, carefully crafted using archival pigment inks on museum-grade paper to preserve its richness for generations.

Limited edition (25 prints per size) on archival print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, signed and numbered.

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