Between the base of Yosemite Falls and the Merced River.
read moreThe sun hit halfdome before almost anything else in the valley setting the scene for what turned into a spectacular morning of cloud modulation. (aka pictures…)
read moreSaturday was rainy and cold. Sunday morning the sun was broke through the clouds and eventually let the mountain tops show through. There wasn’t any snow in the valley but up at the top everything was encased in snow and ice. By noon there was hardly even any evidence of the previous night’s storm.
read moreEl Capitan from the valley floor is immense. The base of the mountain is right behind that patch of trees and the sheer cliff face rises above the valley more than 3500 feet. El Cap is the largest exposed granite slab on earth. Late morning brought warming weather making the clouds around its dome change shape several time a minute.
read moreI didn’t know the name of this peak when i make the picture, and i still can’t figure it out. What struck me initially was the way the light was hitting it, strong on left but without casting a sharp shadow over the right. While the morning clouds and mist blew by the light changed a hundred time in the…
read moreFor the first time in quite a while we were able to take the day off on Friday and take off for Yosemite first thing in the morning. I’m pretty sure it was the first time I’ve ever been able to drive there during the day. Usually we arrive around 10 or 11pm after getting lost in Tracy and rushing…
read moreI’ve spent the week processing and scanning pictures from our last trip to yosemite… It had been a while, more than 6 months i think, since i’ve been out there. This was the first time i’ve ever been to yosemite where the weather could be considered bad. It was cold, windy and rained pretty much all day saturday – the…
read moreThis the last in a few from the North Coast of California (just south of the Oregon border). One of 2 lighthouses located in the strangely quaint and quiet Crescent City, CA. We took a trip to Yosemite last weekend to get a visit in before the tourist season kicked into high gear (and the waterfalls dried up). I’ve been…
read moreThe redwood groves up in the Redwood National Park are even more impressive than the ones around San Francisco. This one was one of the larger ones that we saw that day, right along the banks of the Eel River.
read moreI started reading the biography of Eadweard Muybridge more than a year ago. Since then i’ve been trying to shoot more waterfalls and running water and the like – trying to make pictures look like the way they used to (without the boiling mercury and all that). See… Muybridge was the man who made it possible to take pictures that…
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