More Illumination

This shot, taken at 7:43, shows the sun (which technically rose 19 minutes earlier at 7:24) just then starting to shine in the valley. It seems to Ken two mistakes were made in this effort to photograph the sunrise. #1 – Not fully appreciating the fact that the “sunrise” time is for a flat horizon and does not account for the mountains blocking the sun. #2 – CLEARLY the ranger misunderstood where K+V intended to go. A few hours later they found the TOTALLY FULL parking lot at Wolfe Ranch that apparently was the destination of most of the cars shown driving down the road in the earlier shot.