Jake Tovar is a portrait & film photographer based in San Luis Obispo, California.
On a Saturday this past fall I had to travel to Groveland, California to photograph a wedding. Though the weather forecast was overcast with a solid chance of rain (not ideal for nuptials) the trip to the Sierra Nevada mountain town offered as good an excuse as any to tack on a side trip to Yosemite National Park, located nearby.
Fortunately, the weather held off for the bride and groom, but as my best homie and second shooter Chaney Zimmerman and I woke up the following morning and got ready to head to the valley, rain set in heavy. There was even snow in the high passes. I had never experienced Yosemite in such a state—the cloud coverage was so dense, El Cap and Half Dome weren't visible at all.