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this image was taken in the summer of 2017 during my trip to Yosemite. We drove up to the glacier point in later afternoon hoping to capture sunset lights on the half dome before the sun was setting. the light conditions were not bad despite haze in the air. this is an image of 4-shot stitched together in post processing to create a panorama view of Yosemite.
Yosemite National Park, California
Lit by late afternoon light.... not quite sunset, but into golden time....
Yosemite National Park (pronounced Yo-SEM-it-ee) is a national park located largely in Mariposa and Tuolumne Counties, California, United States. The park covers an area of 761,266 acres or 1,189 square miles (3,081 km²) and reaches across the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain chain. Yosemite is visited by over 3.5 million people each year, with most visitors only seeing the seven square miles (18 km²) of Yosemite Valley.from Wikipedia
Three Raw Exposures -1,0,1 Taken with Digital Rebel and processed with photomatrix plugin for CS2
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I was pleased to learn that the cable trail to the top of Half Dome is back in operation, but disappointed to learn that you now needed a permit. Unfortunately the month-long waiting list kept me from returning to the summit by this (tourist) trail.
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Viewing...
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We had a joyful visit with our California family,
photos to follow. We are back in New York and
will be seeing family and friends for the next few days.
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Half Dome is a granite dome at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley. The granite crest rises more than 4,737 ft above the valley floor.
--- Wikipedia
Taken in May 2019 from the valley below with a telephoto lens. I took another Half Dome photo in Yosemite in November 2018 and the cap was completely covered in snow. Compared to that shot, this reveals all the textures on the formation after the spring melt with lots of clarity.
Obviously nothing brand new here but it's something I've wanted to shoot for myself since I caught the landscape photo bug a couple of years ago. This curious cloud picked a nice time to visit the scene after an afternoon of mostly blue skies.
Yosemite is beautiful beyond words and I'm glad I finally got the chance to visit. I look forward to spring's waterfalls and wildflowers and trying to get a little more creative now that I know my way around a bit. I hope 2014 is treating you all well so far.
Tunnel View, Yosemite National Park. December 20, 2013.
This view of Half Dome was taken from Cook's Meadow in Yosemite Valley. At freezing temperature, I waited until only Half Dome was illuminated by the sunlight. Rain plus thick fog completely covered the valley for two days when I was there, but completely cleared when I took the photo. I only wish there were a bit of clouds left or even better- snow in the valley. Perhaps that's one reason to come back in the future.
Half Dome is a granite rock formation rising 4,737 ft. above Yosemite Valley floor.
It's impossible to come home from Yosemite and not instinctively try to make all of your landscapes look like an Ansel Adams print.
Alas, the beard is just the first of many things the master had that I don't. :)
You hear about these bogus so-called "trophy hunting safaris." The local guides do everything short of sedating a wild animal, throwing a chain around its neck, and staking it to the ground before driving the client right up there and handing them a rifle with the round already chambered. The hunter posts a photo on Facebook of him or her standing proudly over this inert, still-majestic form, casually shouldering the weapon. The post and photo imply that the kill involved several days of careful stalking deep into the heart of the wilderness, at times not knowing who was the hunter and who was the prey, and that it all culminated in a fierce and sudden animal attack in which the hunter was the only one who kept their head and they saved many lives with one steely-accurate shot.
This photo lookout at Yosemite is the same sort of thing (without the moral indefensibility).
It's a rest area on the drive to the park. Your skill level, your camera, even the time of day barely matter. If you can manage to aim your camera at the side of the planet that has Half Dome in it and not the other side, which faces the parking area...you're going to get a great photo.
If you don't? Well. Maybe photography truly isn't your thing.
Of course, here it helped that there were menacing storm clouds, and that I shot an HDR sequence, and that I played around with it in Lightroom.
As with the "big game hunter," I will tell people who see this on my wall that, well, it wasn't easy, hauling that wet-plate view camera and huge oak tripod all the way through the woods and up a mountain. But my previous six scouting trips left me with the hunch that if I got here at just a few minutes before dawn, during the correct part of the year, there just might be a photograph in there...
Old picture that I remembered that I wanted to work on. Half dome at sunset with a golden hue and a cloud that wouldn't go away.
The sun is on the cusp of setting and is kissing that massive rock with a hint of orange light. Cloud is providing the nightcap for the iconic viewpoint.