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Beautiful hillside tea house with a view to the valley deep below at Ulleri village Nepal while trekkers stop to re-energise themselves.
El Capitan rises nearly 3600 feet above the floor of Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park. One of the largest exposed pieces of granite in the world, this behemoth attracts rock climbers from around the world. Everyone seeing Yosemite Valley for the first time is truly amazed at the enormous size of El Capitan as it dwarfs everything in its vicinity. But to be ready to gain a sense of scale, do not forget to bring your binoculars in order to spot the rock climbers. They appear as dots, tiny dots, moving along El Capitan's seemingly sheer surface.
This is one of our favorite views in all of Yosemite National Park. Looking across the Merced River and down Yosemite Valley. The river's water was low during this September visit. But the tall grasses on the near bank and low light on El Capitan made the visit worthwhile. I believe the rock spires on the right are the Cathedral Rocks.
Shadows come early to Yosemite Valley. The water of the Merced River is low at this time of year . . . but its stillness offers a reward of reflections.
A beautiful viewpoint of the Merced River flanked by massive El Capitan on the left and the skyscraping twin Cathedral Rocks and Spires, at Yosemite National Park, California.
This photo was from three vertical shots stitched together in PhotoShop.
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As I headed north on my trip to Hay River and Yellowknife, I passed by this farm between Valleyview and Peace River, Alberta. It was a cloudless day when I first when by and I hoped that I would have a better sky on the return trip (and that I'd remember where the place was!). Well, both the skies and my memory cooperated with me on my return trip.
Moonlight glistening on the Merced River with El Capitan on the left, Cathedral Rocks on the left. The lights on El Capitan are several climbers bivouacked overnight. You can also see the constellation Pleiades to the left of the moon
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The waters of the Merced River and the gates of the valley as seen from Valley View in early August of last year. I have been lucky enough to be able to spend some extended time in this wonderful park during almost every year of my life. And it absolutely, positively never gets old.
A return to one of a series of images from the summer of 2012, now that I have a much better idea of what I'm doing in the digital darkroom. Taken within seconds of another shot that I uploaded to Flickr about 15 months ago. I'm kicking myself for not having the foresight back then to always shoot in RAW, and for not understanding at the time that the smaller the aperture for a landscape shot in micro four thirds, not necessarily the better. But this is much closer to how it would look if I were to shoot it today.
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Winter in Yosemite is magical
In the picture, El Capitan on the left, a very distant snow capped half dome and the bridal veil fall taken from Valleyview
Not the traditional framing of Valley View since there were trees in the way and the lighting wasn't super interesting. The reflections turned out so pretty though!
Yosemite NP
A panorama stitched from 5 images taken in the afternoon in January. I was delighted to get this shot with my NiSi filter which cut the glare in the water to reveal the stones in the foreground. My original plan was to get here for sunrise but I did not plan very well and could not reach this spot in time.
Ever since my buddy Gregg Cooper posted his shot of the Milky Way at the Gates of the Valley several years ago, I've been trying to get something comparable from this spot. The challenges to actually shooting the Milky Way from the Gates Of The Valley are myriad, which explains why it takes awhile to get a decent shot, especially during the month of February. First of all, even if you show up at 4:30 AM, all of those pesky photographers that are in the valley to shoot the Firefall are also up at 4:30 and the vast majority of them are on their way to the tunnel to shoot the sunrise. And to get to the tunnel, they need need to drive past where you are shooting...with their high beams on. (Not unlike what I did to Gregg in 2013.)
Then there are those who actually show up to shoot the Milky Way, just after you have your settings dialed in, and proceed to set up directly in front of you because you, like an idiot, decided you liked the wider view giving the entire suburban full of photographers ample opportunity to politely move in front of you, along with their headlamps and very bright LCD screens. (I knew this was probably going to happen, but still...arg. If you want to ensure that no one sets up in front of you, it's always best to set up right next to the river, but I wanted the extra elevation to bring Bridal Veil into the shot.)
Add to that the fact that the Milky Way moves pretty quickly across the sky. If you time it wrong, even by 15 minutes, it could be too far from El Cap and the surrounding granite walls by the time you arrive. Even if it is in the right position when you arrive, at most you have 30 minutes before it moves directly overhead and out of your shot.
Then there's the issue of....it's just so darn DARK in Yosemite without the moon, necessitating a very long exposure blended with the 25 second max you get before the stars begin to blur. Good luck finding a 90 second window without the high beams...and headlamps....and lcd screens...and irate time-lapse photographers looking for missing pieces of gear...and...
So I kept moving around...and waiting and re-shooting...until the suburban full of photographers took off for the tunnel. As soon as they were gone, I ran back and quickly grabbed a few shots as the first hint of blue crept into the horizon. This was literally the last frame I was able to grab before the Milky Way faded and moved out of position.
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when i looked out of the window the other day i saw on the other side of the valley some fog stacking up with the hill lines, so i grabbed my camera, walked up the hill on my side but when i arrived the fog was way stronger and higher and you could barely see the hills further away. with some raw-magic i made them visible and i think it looks great but it's not what i wanted to capture. have a nice weekend everybody