“The beauty of a campfire is in watching its dance,” said Stephen Lyman. “The ethereal qualities are extreme, playing back and forth from the hottest part of the flame to the coolest shadowed crack in the rocks.”   Stephen Lyman’s passion for the wilderness is  beautifully realized his evocative campfire images. The vertical reach of "Fire Dance" stretches the drama of this Yosemite  mountainside scene to include expanses of both earth and sky. Light suffuses the air and sweeps through the sky on wisps of clouds while the mountain’s flanks glow with warmth.  

“The alpenglow, rocks, trees, snow, clouds and dancing flames conspired to inspire me,” said Stephen Lyman. “The fire warmed me, it cheered me up and dried me out . . . the experience was beyond words.”