Spirits of Silver

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Got interested in William Keith, a California landscape painter who was a close friend of John Muir and Carleton Watkins, and did a google search for some of his work online. His compositions struck me as being similar to my own so I pulled out a thick volume of 35mm slides from my hikes in the Sierra Nevada and came across this one on the first page. It was taken with a K1000 on the Muir Pass trail. I wish that I would have used a strong UV filter in those days instead of a circular polarizer.



Here's another one:

This was taken at sunset overlooking Bullfrog Lake from the western side of Kearsarge Pass about 1/2 mile or so from the top of the pass and, in my opinion, one of the most scenic areas of the Sierra Nevada from the John Muir Trail.  On this particular trip I didn't spend sufficuent time acclimating to the elevation and spent a day or so in the tent before continuing.

This is an 1902 oil on canvass painting by Keith of Bulfrom Lake when Keith  was about 63 years of age:

As you can see, it faithfully adheres to the actual landscape.