Majestic

John Muir took a camping trip in 1903 with President Theodore Roosevelt in Yosemite National Park, a preserve that Muir had lobbied congress to create in 1890. On that trip he convinced the president to take control of Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove away from California and return it to the federal government. In 1906, Roosevelt signed a bill that did precisely that.

This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera and SMC PENTAX 67 1:4 45mm lens with a Hoya HMC 82mm O[G] filter using Kodak TX400 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.