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Yosemite Valley as seen from Yosemite Point, Yosemite National Park, California.
This image is part of my Yosemite set. Please view this image in its large size.
This is a stitch of seven composite images which show a HDR panorama of Yosemite Valley. Each of the seven images is itself a three-exposure, shutter bracket composite processed in HDR Efex Pro.
From the valley floor, I took a leisurely stroll up to the top of Yosemite Falls and went all the way to Yosemite Point. The snow was knee deep between the Yosemite Falls view point and Yosemite Point and I did not have snowshoes, only trail crampons, so the going was tough. The view, however, was my reward for the effort!
This was my first time hiking to the top of Yosemite Falls and it is a spectacular hike! The trail switchbacks up and wends along sheer granite cliff faces and, at one point, offers a view of Upper Yosemite Falls that is awesome in the true sense of the word. The hiker is only a few hundred feet west of the upper falls and sheets of ice, falling from their granite perches, thunder throughout the valley as they crash to the rocks below. To get the view portrayed in this image one must push on past the upper falls viewpoint and tackle another set of steep switchbacks to gain the top of the cliffs.
HDR composite images made with a Nikon D7000 and Tokina 11-16mm.
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Fremont National Forest, Oregon.
This plaque was erected in July, 1993 as part of the expedition's 150th anniversary. In case you can’t read it, it says:
"Second Fremont Exploring Expedition of 1843
You are standing at Fremont Point on top of Winter Ridge, approximately 7000 feet above sea level. Captain John C. Fremont of the US Topographical Corps and his men arrived at this location on December 16, 1843. They were on a journey to the Great Basin Desert lands to the east. Captain Fremont led one of the first mapping parties through this part of Oregon. He and his party, including guide and frontiersman Kit Carson, traveled south from The Dalles on the Columbia River. This route took them through the Deschutes River Valley, pine forests, mountain passes and rimrocks until reaching the exposed point you are currently standing on. Geographic and scientific knowledge of this area increased significantly as a result of Fremont's expedition."
Footnote: What John Fremont wrote of the experience:
"Rising rapidly ahead to this spot we found ourselves on the verge of a vertical and rocky wall of the mountain. At our feet -- more than a thousand feet below -- we looked into a grass prairie country, in which a beautiful lake, some twenty miles in length, was spread along the foot of the mountain ... shivering on snow three feet deep and stiffening in a cold north wind, we exclaimed at once that the names of summer lake and winter ridge should be applied to these proximate places of such sudden and violent contrast."
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park
In 1852 Colonel James Whiteside built a road from the north end of Lookout Mountain to his property at the top, then called Point Lookout. The ride up took four hours in a buggy with a good horse, but the view was stunning. In 1857 Col. Whiteside added a hotel that would be destroyed during the Civil War.
A few days after the battle of Chickamauga the Army of Tennessee retook Lookout Mountain and used it as an observation post and to fire on Chattanooga, Tennessee. Confederate artillery from Point Lookout was largely ineffective. After the Union Army successfully completed the "Cracker Line" the position became a target. On November 24, 1863 General Joseph Hooker launched an attack that would become known as the "Battle Above The Clouds." Although no fighting actually took place in Point Park a Confederate artillery battery did fire on Union soldiers, who were sweeping the mountainside during The Battle of Lookout Mountain.
Although the mountaintop remained relatively quiet after the Civil War, in 1879 a second toll-road was completed and a building boom ensued. By the mid-1890's there were a number of alternate routes to the top of Lookout Mountain including Inclines (Incline Railway) and two railroads (a broad gauge and narrow gauge), and a number of hotels and rooms.
Point Park was completed in 1905 to commemorate the Battle Above the Clouds" as part of the Chickamauga-Chattanooga National Military Park. Land on the mountainside, acquired by the publisher of the Chattanooga Times, Adolph S. Ochs, from Col. Whiteside's family and the family of Robert Cravens comprised a significant portion of the Chickamauga-Chattanooga National Military Park on Lookout Mountain, although it is not technically part of Point Park. Ochs then donated the land to the government for the memorial. Cravens House is also a part of the park and can be reached by road or trails.
Inside Point Park are numerous monuments to the men who fought and died. The New York Peace Memorial features a Union and a Confederate soldier shaking hands. A small museum at the Ochs Overlook houses items of interest for Civil War buffs.
From Point Park it is possible to access many other sites through an intricate maze of trails on Lookout Mountain. Access to the trails is from Ochs Museum. You can walk to Sunset Rock, where James Longstreet watched the Union Army march unopposed into Lookout Valley during the operations associated with the Battle of Browns Ferry. (1.1 miles, easy), walk to the Cravens House, (1.5 miles, moderate) or follow the eastern rim of the mountain (1.5, easy) on the Mountain Rim Trail. This trail is exceptionally beautiful at sunrise.
Death Knell of the Confederacy. In 1863, Union and Confederate forces fought for control of Chattanooga, known as the "Gateway to the Deep South." The Confederates were victorious at nearby Chickamauga in September. However, renewed fighting in Chattanooga that November provided Union troops victory and control of the city. After the fighting, a Confederate soldier ominously wrote, "This...is the death-knell of the Confederacy."
A unit of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park located on Lookout Mountain. The site of the Civil War battle commonly referred to as "The Battle Above the Clouds." The newly renovated visitor center houses a 33' by 13' mural painted by James Walker, an eyewitness to the battle, and has several short audio-visual presentations about the painting and battles for Chattanooga.
Point Park hours of operation (Eastern Standard Time): Open daily 8:30 a.m. - sunset. Park Admission Price: Adults $3.00, visitors with any of the America The Beautiful - National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Passes enter free and Children under 16 enter free. Admission to the Point Park Visitor Center is free. Visitor center hours of operation (Eastern Standard Time): June-August 8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.; September-May 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
East Brow Rd. Lookout Mountain, TN. 010223.
Point Reyes Headlands. Point Reyes National Seashore, California. June 1, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
This photograph is not in the public domain. It may not be used on websites, blogs, or in any other media without explicit advance permission from G Dan Mitchell.
Point Reyes Headlands with coastal haze, foreground cove, and Drakes Bay.
I made this photograph in incredibly windy conditions. (I can hear other Point Reyes regulars saying, "duh!" at this point...) It was the kind of afternoon when no tripod is sturdy enough to really hold the camera still - so I waited and shot during relative lulls in the gale. If you look closely at the lower right corner you can see sea lions hauled out on the beach.
This is Bean Point which is at the end of Anna Maria Island here in central Florida. When I arrived a group of people were watching the last remnants of a waterspout that seemed more a curiosity than any real danger. It's no wonder that meteorologists like this area. Changing subjects, I've recently come to learn that these tall grasses are known as sea oats. That's cool, but what I really want to know is if they're gluten free. Okay, that was dumb.
The view looking along the promenade towards Scalestones Point from near Hest Bank. in today's lock
down photo gallery at this link www.thebrewstop.co.uk/lockdown-2021/part-two/22ndmarch.htm
It rained overnight, so I had plenty of waterdrops to play with this morning before I went to work (slightly late).
I'm not entirely sure what these are on - something 'bulby' that hasn't opened up yet. I'm hoping it might turn out to be an Agapanthus because I love those.
If there are 365 days in 2010, I think this picture must officially mark my half-way point on my 'picture a day' exercise.
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I sat there with a lot on my mind, wondering, well, "what's the point?". Then something told me, "listen to the bridge, kid".
Near Wolf Point, Montana; officially the Lewis and Clark Bridge, built across the Missouri River in 1930.
Aim Point (2,582 square feet)
701 Lynnhaven Parkway, Suites A-01-02, Lynnhaven Mall, Virginia Beach, VA
This location opened in 2020 and closed in 2022.
Suite A01 (637 square feet) was originally Temple of Music, which opened in the mid 1980s. It became a Verizon Wireless in the late 2000s, which closed in spring 2012.
Suite A-02 (1,945 square feet) was originally a Rudy & Kelly, which opened in the mid 1980s and closed in the late 2000s. It became Healing Hands in the late 2000s, which closed in July 2012.
The spaces became Itsybit in February 2019, which closed in 2020, and Alchemist Nail Spa on April 23rd, 2023.
Point Piper is a small, affluent harbourside eastern suburb of Sydney.
Point Piper is generally regarded as the most exclusive residential suburb in Australia. Wolseley Road, Point Piper, is currently ranked the 9th most expensive street in the world, at $38,900 per square metre.
Point Piper was named after Captain John Piper (1773–1851). Piper was a Scottish-born military officer of Cornish parentage, who arrived in the colony in 1792 and built a neo-Palladian mansion on the point, on 190 acres (0.77 km2) of land granted by the governor in 1816. After a review of Piper's performance as head of the Customs Department showed that he had mismanaged funds (although he was not actually accused of being corrupt), Piper attempted to drown himself in Sydney Harbour. He subsequently sold his holdings at Point Piper, Rose Bay, Neutral Bay, and Petersham, for £5,000 and moved to the country.
In 1834, Piper's former residence was leased by Colonel John George Nathaniel Gibbes (1787-1873), the newly arrived Collector of Customs for New South Wales and a Crown appointee to the colony's Legislative Council. Colonel Gibbes and his family resided at Point Piper House (also known as Henrietta, or Naval, Villa) until 1844, when they moved to "Wotonga" on Kirribilli Point. Wotonga now forms part of Admiralty House. Unfortunately, Point Piper House was torn down in the 1850s and the site redeveloped.
A visit to the coast still hoping for pelagics; however this was my compensation. She sat on a rock below the dunes and allowed me to walk close and around her. One can see the remnants of a recent prey still staining her breast feathers.
Point Park in Chattanooga. This is where the Battle of Chattanooga took place during the Civil War (more accurately: The War Between the States :-) )
Snapped on a summer evening in Point Pleasant, Nj with my sister and daughter. This was my daughters first time at the atlantic ocean. She was loving every minute of it. i had to carefully keep an eye on her while shooting. It was fun:-)
This image was tone mapped a bit in Adobe Creative Suite and Lightroom 3.
Shot details
Shutter 1/3 sec
Aperture F22
ISO 400
manual mode
focal length 18mm
Tripod mounted
Sony a390 DSLR
sony 18-55 SAM lens
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