Another part of the runoff of Bridalveil falls. Towards the end of the summer this is a large rocky area that you can climb all over and even all the way up to where the falls break, in the winter/spring it’s hard to navigate without getting a case of wet-foot, or pick up a clinger. Jason picked up a clinger…
read moreThe area immediately below Bridalveil is responsible for diverting all of the water that rolls over the falls into the merced river which is probably about a quarter of a mile away. I don’t know how authentic the runoff area is as it looks like there’s been some major work done over the years to facilitate visitors to the base…
read moreThere are lots of things in a flowing river that will get wedged from time to time two of the most popular being rocks and trees – at least in this part of the world. When i’m come across similar configurations in the past the tree usually is not totally and completely static as this one was. I spent a…
read moreWe just returned from the Strawberry Music Festival which took place up near the Hetch Hetchy. The weather was no friend to us though as the temperature was about 40 degrees and rainy (hard rain mostly) the entire time we were there. That could have been ok had we not been prepared for 80 degrees and sunny. At any rate…
read moreLate last year I decided that i was going to participate in National Solo Photo Book Month an excellent project organized by Paul Butzi. I spent a good deal of time over the coming months brainstorming on topics and coming up with several ideas that i thought could be successful. What once had been a quite erratic work schedule has…
read moreWe left Port Townsend the next morning and took the Kingston Ferry into Edmonds which put us just outside of Seattle. We drove directly to Paseo for a cuban sandwich. Now i’ve had a lot of sandwiches – and my share of Cuban sandwiches – but this was by far the best. If you’re in Seattle make a point to…
read moreJust a little more snow! This is from a snow shoeing trip back in January after a fresh snow the night before.
read moreI’ve been busy – or at least trying to maintain my motivation – scanning all of the film from our trip to Death Valley last month. It’s a pretty daunting thing to get home from work every day and have a thick pile of Print Files staring you in the eye let me tell you! To help cope with that…
read moreSomehow this ice has survived the snow melt and running water by being on just the right rock.
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