Yosemite

Merced River: Surging Water
1918 1920 Liberty Thermionics

There are places that you can stand along the banks of the river where the trees and rocks can’t obscure your view of the river. If you ignore your peripheral vision and focus on what’s right in front of you the flowing river can take on new and different forms. This is what I tend to do when i’m shooting…

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Snow Melt – Merced River
1896 1920 Liberty Thermionics

It’s hard to tell if rocks are 3 feet under water or 3 inches when the river is flowing in the springtime.

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Bridalveil Falls with Rainbow
1903 1920 Liberty Thermionics

If you’ve ever stood at the base of the falls you know how wet you can get. Well… i got about that wet. In about a 10 minute period I went from walking around in the warm evening air to being freezing and wet at the base of the falls. Being the end of the day there was really no…

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Merced River
1910 1920 Liberty Thermionics

Water flowing down a particularly long stretch of rapids.

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Bridalveil Runoff
1917 1920 Liberty Thermionics

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…

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Bridalveil Runoff
1899 1920 Liberty Thermionics

The 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…

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SoFoBoMo is done!
850 850 Liberty Thermionics

Yesterday was the last day I could work on my Solo Photo Book Month project as May ended at midnight last night. I spent a good deal of time yesterday putting the finishing touches on it (well really, I spent a good deal of yesterday putting the entire book together. I started out in early May having to change the…

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Merced River: Rock and Tree
1920 1915 Liberty Thermionics

There 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…

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Bridal Veil Falls Runoff
1911 1920 Liberty Thermionics

We 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…

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Snow Melt: The Merced River in Spring
1903 1920 Liberty Thermionics

Late 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…

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