You can always rely on Tunnel View for a great Yosemite photo, right? Well, not always, as it turns out. Even the perspective on Yosemite Valley that Tunnel View offers can be rendered fairly un-photogenic by bad light. Sorry, but even this old faithful spot is subject to the same weakness as every other spot on earth. But as Yosemite so often does, it surprised us the night we were at Tunnel View with this view on a fall that we didn’t expect to see or even know existed.
Tyler first noticed the way the setting sun was pour warm light on the fall, and his was the first camera to turn 90 degrees to the right, as I recall. Soon many of the cameras that had been pointed up the valley toward Half Dome had pivoted to follow his. The light was as amazing on this fall as it was bland on the valley, here glowing orange in a way you sometimes see in February images of Horsetail Fall.
There was a lot of snow and a lot of run off this season, which results in many seasonal falls appearing for brief periods through the park. This one probably has a name, we decided that when all else fails there at Tunnel View, turn to your right and see if the sun happens to be shining on If All Else Falls.
