The illusion of fire falling over Horsetail Fall in Yosemite National Park is a yearly phenomenon. At 9pm sharp, a master of ceremonies in Curry Village shouted out, “Let the Fire Fall!” and the bonfire’s glowing embers were pushed over the edge of Glacier Point, creating a glittering “Waterfall of Fire”. The angle of the sun has to be just right, which happens for a couple of weeks in February.
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Viewers have been sharing unbelievable photos from Yosemite National Park. Temperatures have to be warm enough to melt some of the snow to get the Horsetail Fall flowing. Squatting on wet, slippery ice with the photographer’s backside a few inches from my grill, I managed to get this shot of Firefall at its peak glow.
This image may look like lava or a marvelous painting, but it’s a phenomenon that many call “firefall”.
He sure did, his image has been going viral on social media, and of course it would.
It’s been several years since Firefall has made its return, especially due to recent droughts, and photographer Dey said: ‘I’ve met photographers who said that they have been coming for 11 years only to see this happen 2 or 3 times’. “When it ended, a few of us had tears in our eyes”.
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It’s firefall season in the park, and that has attracted many photographers and others wishing to capture the scene.
