#1 Vernal Fall

In the summer of 1988 I hiked the John Muir Trail, which travels 221 miles from Yosemite Valley to the summit of Mount Whitney. I took photographs along the trail and over the next year and a half did a suite of 17 etchings of this Sierra Nevada backpack.

A brease came up as the sun set on Lake Virginia, about 9 miles south of Silver Pass in John Muir Wilderness. The reflections of the blue sky and the redish mountains danced on the water.