Siesta Lake Steve Dixon
Technical and Purchase Information
Camera/Lens: Arca Swiss view 65mm Raptar
Format: 6x9
Film: 120 TMAX 100
Print Sizes Available: 8x10,11x14, 16x20
All prints are on double-weight fiber-based paper, archivally processed, selenium
toned,signed and dry-mounted. Mats are archival quality and acid free. Actual
print sizes may vary slightly.
Catalog Numbers:
8x10 - 10122
11x14 - 14122 Order Prints
16x20 - 20122
Driving the Tioga Road toward the eastern side of Yosemite, I saw the small roadside sign indicating Siesta
Lake. Ansel Adams took a wonderful picture here, as had others, so I stopped to try my hand. There was a log
along the edge of the lake that looked like the remains of one Adams had shot, but I couldn't make anything of it,
so I started wandering the semi-trail around the edge of the lake.
These small, high-altitude ponds are in the process of becoming meadows through sedimentation and plant
growth, and the edges are pretty spongy. When I came to this spot, the pattern of the grass in the foreground and
the vertical echo of the trees with their reflections across the lake worked well for me. I'd love to have spent most
of a day there.