Mountain Light Gallery (106 South Main Street, Bishop; 760-873-7700; mountainlight.com) sells photographs by Galen and Barbara Rowell and others and offers workshops by professional landscape photographers.
Thomson attributes the fragile lyricism of Ingmar Bergman's early films to the brevity of the Swedish summer, and says that Leni Riefenstahl in her documentation of the Berlin Olympics photographed "mountain light at ground level".
Merging with the forest - and built partly of the same larchwood - the fluid form of the buildings is echoed inside where the mountain light and the view are never obscured from dawn to dusk.
The Torchlight Parade is a spectacular on-snow event, coursing its way down the mountain lit only by torches.
Through the dark humid air, Hardy could see mountains lit by sudden flashes of heat lightning, the boom of thunder echoing over the water.
Unfortunately, Latin Americans in France must get used to telling people that in their country, they do not live in huts in trees or in mountains lit with torches.
But he forgot to include the dawn and the dusk, and the mountain still lights up as the sun rises and sets.
While they would creep home through a tangle of tiny streets and cluttered neighborhoods, I would hop into my car, dive into the Lincoln Tunnel and emerge on the helix, a huge curve where New York, the greatest city on earth, would reveal itself in a mountain of lights and glory.
From the peak of the mountain, the lights of Melilla can be seen, but they are unreachable protected by razor-wire fences and border guards armed with pepper spray, and truncheons.
The 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) is a light infantry division in the United States Army based at Fort Drum, New York.
"As the light faded, the tips of the mountain were lit and the sky was a magical colour," Tom added.
