Night Falls

Photograph by Phil Hawkins , National Geographic Your Shot

Though most photographers leave Yosemite National Park s Tunnel View overlook when the direct light of sunset has disappeared, Your Shot member Phil Hawkins usually stays for another hour to see how the light evolves. On this occasion I happened to notice a slight glow in the mist hugging the valley floor and wondered how this would look in a timed exposure, he writes. So I drilled in on an area of activity and simply left the shutter open for about ten minutes, and this image is the result.

Hawkins s picture recently appeared in Your Shot's Daily Dozen .