"May your joys be as bright as the morning, and your sorrows merely be shadows that fade in the sunlight of love. May you have enough happiness to keep you sweet, enough trials to keep you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to keep you." ~ Irish Blessing

After multiple wet and long storms over the previous days, it brought joy and hope to our hearts to see clear skies and bright mountain sun each morning. After arising at dawn and watching it occur, it was time to capture the personal moment in a unique way, with a shadow portrait.

Photographed at the base of Mt. Banner at Thousand Island Lake, in the Ansel Adams Wilderness