The Merced and Half Dome - IMG#5631

I normally will not even set up my tripod unless conditions are "right" or it is at least around sunset or sunrise and I am just hoping for some action. But when I came across this scene, while doing some scouting for where I wanted to shoot on a return trip to the park, the fog was just start to lift off of the valley floor and I knew that I should be able to achieve this nicely and evenly "whited" out sky. So i set up my manfrotto legs and waited for the sun to start passing behind the cliff on the right. Although I had set everything up, in hind site I could have shot handheld considering my exposure was fast enough to stop these bubble on the float down the Merced River.