Gates of the Valley

Story Behind the Image This had been an exciting week for me. After a nearly 17-year hiatus, The Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite restarted their tradition of offering photographic workshops. I had just finished leading the first workshop of this new venture, when a storm moved in. I grabbed my gear and drove around the Valley to see what I could find. I pulled over at a favorite spot, Gates of the Valley, where the Merced River leads into views of El Capitan and Cathedral Rocks. Everything fell into place, and I was blessed with this wonderful image. About Artist Alan Ross is an internationally respected master photographer and educator who expresses his unique vision with a combination of traditional photographic craftsmanship and today’s technology. His tonally exquisite photographs take the viewer from the grandeur of the American West to the changing faces of China to abstractions created by the relationship of objects both natural and man-made. Each image is a purely visual and e