Sara Stallings
David Muench, "Winter Reflection"
1966
I choose this image by David Muench called this by two names either "Winter Reflection" or "El Capitan Reflection" and was shot in 1966. David Muench shoot this in by the Merced River in Yosemite National Park in, California. David Muench has posted on his website that he is inspired by places such as the Merced River in Yosemite, and that his page on Yosemite landscape he feels that Yosemite's is Americas preeminent landscape icon. This image of El Capitan is a major part of this national park and twice the size of Gibraltar. Muench took this picture of the Merced River and within this clear spot in the river between the snow covered rocks we see the intensified face of the granite that projects so firmly by El Capitan. The sky that lights up behind the upside down vertical rock shines giving warmth to the rock and the center of the image, which is surrounded by snow.
