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I woke up early in the morning around 6:30pm and walked toward Stoneman meadow right outside of Curry Village. The low hanging clouds had already shrouded the face of Half Dome. I saw a buck scratching his antler against the wooden fence by the road. There were a couple other fellow photogs watching him from the other side of the road. It 's such a wonderful morning in Yosemite Valley.
This is a view of Upper Yosemite Falls from the Yosemite Valley. The top of the waterfall cascades from 2,425 feet above the Valley and the resulting river joins the Merced River through the rest of Yosemite Valley. In April, the waterfalls were roaring even despite the fact that there hadn't been rain/snow in Yosemite for two weeks prior. That's how much snowpack there is on the upper elevations (and it will continue with a waterfall for several more months!) This picture was taken before a major storm came through that forced the park to evacuate and close, as the Merced River rose from 5 feet deep to 15 feet deep in 24 hours.
Rework of an old shot. Panorama looking SW at a hiker on the Visor of Half Dome over Yosemite Valley. The Visor is often mistakenly referred to as the Diving Board, a feature that is actually SW on the ridge below Half Dome. Left to right is Mt Watkins, Tenaya Canyon, Cathedral Peak, Clouds Rest, Cathedral Range, Little Yosemite Valley, Clark Range, Mt Starr King, Glacier Point behind the Half Dome Visor and hiker at center, Yosemite Valley with Stoneman, Ahwahnee and Leidig Meadows, El Capitan, North Dome, Basket Dome, and Snow Creek left to right. California, Sierra Nevada Mountains, Yosemite, Half Dome. Off the John Muir Trail near Mile 006.
Rework of an old shot. Panorama looking SW at a hiker on the Visor of Half Dome over Yosemite Valley. The Visor is often mistakenly referred to as the Diving Board, a feature that is actually SW on the ridge below Half Dome. Left to right is Mt Watkins, Tenaya Canyon, Cathedral Peak, Clouds Rest, Cathedral Range, Little Yosemite Valley, Clark Range, Mt Starr King, Glacier Point behind the Half Dome Visor and hiker at center, Yosemite Valley with Stoneman, Ahwahnee and Leidig Meadows, El Capitan, North Dome, Basket Dome, and Snow Creek left to right. California, Sierra Nevada Mountains, Yosemite, Half Dome. Off the John Muir Trail near Mile 006.
Stoneman Meadow, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California, U.S.A. Taken with zoom. #donthasslewildlife
Panorama looking SW at a hiker on the Visor of Half Dome over Yosemite Valley. The Visor is often mistakenly referred to as the Diving Board, a feature that is actually SW on the ridge below Half Dome. California, Sierra Nevada Mountains, Yosemite, Half Dome. Off the John Muir Trail near Mile 006.
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Hmmm.... as an experiment, I processed this from .jpeg in Photoscape and THEN imported it into LR4 and mucked around a bit, and also processed straight RAW in LR4.
The .jpeg results, looking at the histogram, have a data line waaaay higher up than the RAW, and has much better color than the processed RAW, but if you zoom in on the jpeg, the detail, in comparison, frankly sucks.
Not sure what I want to do w/this, but it's forcing me to admit that I don't know how to get such color (as desaturated and muted as it is) from a RAW file.
Sigh. Always more to learn, I guess.
View from Stoneman Meadow during the wind storm of December 1, 2011.
Taken with a Pentax K-5 and SMCP-DA 16-45mm F4 ED AL at 23mm.
This is a composite of 5 bracketed images, combined in Photomatix Pro HDR software.
Except for the web, I know no female photographer who is serious with the hobby, not even with a p&s camera. I thought it may be because of the hitech industry that I'm in but I also don't see as many women with fancy cameras at places that I go to (outdoors).
I wanted to take this photo without being too obvious that I was also photographing her; that's the reason I'm not quite happy with the composition. She turned back once and knew too well what was happening.
This is Stoneman meadow in Yosemite National Park. On July 4, 1970, the National Park Service decided to get the hippies, who had been camping in the meadow since Memorial Day, out of Yosemite Valley. Things didn’t go well. The park service rangers, and their horses, weren’t trained to deal with a mob, who, armed with bottles and rocks, did not want to leave.
And really, who could blame them. Besides enjoying the beauty of Yosemite, they were also having sex in the open, ingesting hallucinogenic mushrooms and dancing naked in the woods. Hmmm. Sounds like the 70’s.
Eventually, the superior, and sober, forces won the day and hundreds of hippies spent much of the rest of the summer in jail in nearby towns. And the park service went on to arm their rangers and train both men and horses to deal with angry mobs. Not only that, but to deal, harshly, with any other form of poor behavior as well. Even today, you don’t dare creep through a stop sign in the Valley, even if it is 11:00 at night and there isn’t a soul in sight. Trust me on this one.
So, where is all this history leading? I was in the Valley that summer shortly before the July 4th riot. I was barely a teenager, and no hippy, not yet anyway. My dad and I decided, (mostly my dad) to cross the road (you can see it on the right) into the hippy camp to get a first hand view. My dad always had a place in his heart for free thinkers. He may have also liked checking out the half-dressed girls, but that’s just a guess.
It was both embarrassing (my father was the master of getting people riled up), and fascinating. The main part I remember is that there was very little to remember. During the day anyway, it was just like talking to anybody else who wanted to take their time and enjoy the wonder of Yosemite. I’m sure, during the night, it was a whole different story.
Anyway, this is Stoneman meadow. You can find me camped, in a regular, official campsite, right behind those trees, every summer right around the 4th of July.
Who ya pointin' that thing at! Ain't no other coyotes around here so ya must be pointin' that thing at me. What, ya wanna piece of me? **click** (Early that evening I shot a coyote.)
For some inexplicable reason I didn't take a panorama. The entire valley was framed with the peaks darting in and out of the clouds.
Stoneman Bridge over the Merced River in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California, USA, Yosemite_Valley-21
Taken after a thunderstorm the night before, without a doubt the most magical I have ever seen Yosemite.
From the road, only this bucks fuzzy antlers were visible and only a few people noticed the "fuzzy sticks" visible in the grassy Stoneman meadow. But people did notice, unfortunately, one of them was a harraser
Want to see his big brown eyes?
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I was amused that this Redwing Blackbird in Stoneman meadow seemed to find some shade under this ubiqitous blooming plant - a common Yarrow, I believe. Apparently he didn't like my presence because after taking his picture he "charged" me as I turned to continue down the road to get closer to the "protruding antlers".
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