I came across this scene the in the evening and returned early the following morning to capture it before it was bathed in full sunlight and while the air was still. It is just upstream from the Tenaya Creek bridge on the road to Mirror Lake in eastern Yosemite Valley. I positioned the camera and tripod atop a large log jam which had accumulated during the flooding of 1997. The extra height of the logs gave me a height advantage over what I could of achieved from the height of the foreground rocks you see in the bottom of the photograph. It was quite precarious up on the logs, balance was crucial to keep the tripod from being accidentally knocked off as well as myself.