Fresh snow outlines the undeniable form of "Ansel's Tree" as I first discovered it. Coldly stark, it occupies a lonely wintertime outpost of boulders jutting out into the senescent Merced River. A favorite shooting location because of the exquisite early morning light, it succumbed to the forces of age and its brothering stream in February of 2009.

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