On Friday morning we woke up at 4:30 am for one last sunrise shoot. John and I stepped outside the cabin to gauge the weather. It was dark and cold, and there were no stars visible. We also couldn't make out the silhouette of the mountains. It didn't look promising, but amazingly there were students walking towards the van at 4:45 am ready to go. We were up, so we decided to go for it. Unfortunately, the light never really broke through the clouds, and after an hour or so it started to rain. We headed back to the cabins and decided it would be a good day to get some serious work done in the studio. From 9:00 am to nearly 9:00 pm we worked in the studio editing and backing up our images and making some final prints.

By the time we were done, the light had broken through the heavy clouds and painted the mountains in dramatic shades of pinks and purples. We decided to run up to the park and try to catch a few minutes of the remaining light. We headed to Mormon Row, which is a series of old homesteads and cabins from some of the first settlers in the region. The structures have been moderately maintained over the years by the park service. The images above are a couple of long exposures from the area. The exposures were several minutes long, which records the motion of the clouds. I also used a portable flash and light to illuminate the cabins and freeze the students in various poses.