Bring your eye out of the shadows and carry between the abstracted trees in the foreground, then race across a golden meadow to a lone, translucent tree standing before ranks of towering pines flanking a granite cliff. We are traveling through layers of time and space to enjoy this example of nature’s handiwork. While the foreground approach may somewhat similar to my Stoneman Meadow landscape “Layers of Light,” the middeground and background in this image work quite differently. In this example, the focal point of the image -- that one translucent tree -- is very far from the camera. We must journey across a vast field to get there, and once there. we are treated to a great scale incongruity – the translucent tree is many times smaller than the conifers stacked up behind it. This image spotlights the individual, instead of the masses. Even in nature, some must go it alone.