El Capitan

I think the best time to visit Yosemite is February. There is still some snow around the valley. The trees and the snow shine mystically because of the sun rays through the patchy clouds. Certainly a sight to behold.

• Henry David Thoreau.

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Panorama from Tunnel View location at Yosemite Valley. It’s the second time I have been in this location In freezing early morning temperatures hoping to view some dramatic sky. I have been disappointed both times on that aspect. The first time I had grey skies and the second time I was met with crystal clear sky. I think I need to check the weather conditions for Yosemite Valley more often. We spend the whole morning here without noticing even a single cloud. Let’s just say my exp here is the opposite of what I usually get at Valley view.

This is one is again a stitched panorama shot of the entire valley stitched from about 40 shots. Hope everyone like it. Thanks for visiting and have a great day..

• Edmund Burke.

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Most people who go to Yosemite National park will recognize this view as Tunnel view and its one of the trademark images of Yosemite national park. I have shot this scene before but this time we wanted to do something different and hence ended up hiking to Artist point which about half a mile away from the parking lot and requires a lot climbing and scrambling. Actually the hike is almost entirely elevation gain and not a good thing to do when the sunset is already happening as we literally had no time to take a breather. I was almost certain that I was going to have a heart attack, at least a couple of times during our scramble.

I know this view point is not that far from Tunnel view but the this vista has an entirely different perspective due to the elevation gain and to add to it we got to watch most spectacular sunset I have ever witnessed at Yosemite. Yosemite, to me at least, has always been a sunrise location and I was properly stocked to get a sunset this pretty and I had high hopes for next day’s sunrise shoot. But that’s a story for another day’s post. Hope you like this image, thanks for visiting.

Wildfire caused smoke fog over Yosemite National Park. Famous Bridal Vein Falls was invisible because of drought.

Shot from the Tunnel View

Shot from the Tunnel View

Yosemite National Park without water. One of the things that I surprised me when I visited this Park was the big areas burned and shortage of water. People told this year has been a very dry year. Welcome to environment change. This photo was taken from Tunnel View.

Yosemite National Park, California, USA September 2016

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• John Muir.

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• Margaret Mead.

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Keeping up with moody foggy images, here is a photo I took from Atrist’s point at Yosemite National Park. We had made a quick weekend trip to Yosemite and was hoping for some cool shots of th park in winter, I have a weather alert for Yosemite in an app and everytime inclement weather is reported, we get a notification. Unfortunately, we hoped for a snow storm but all we got was just the clouds and fog. Kind of cements a saying I have often heard guides, adventurists, and photographers’ repeats “Nature never cooperates”.

I also made a time lapse video at this location which howed the movement of the clouds as they got pummeled into this narrow canyon by unrelenting wind. Please check that out here and wait till the end to see landmark features of yosemilte valley get revealed. I haven’t had much of a chance to get back to timelapse since then and would really like to brush up on that skill a bit more.

• Jean Paul.

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After the amazing sunset at Artist point we returned to tunnel view early in the morning to get a glimpse of the valley bathed in warm sunrise light. What we got was complete gray everywhere, the entire Yosemite valley was filled with fog. We spent most of the sunrise looking at a gray canvas but as the sun rose it started to warm up and fog started to clear. I initially had a plan to make a time lapse video here and went about setting up my camera for just that.

This shot is one of the images from the lime lapse when the fog cleared a bit and you could see much of the features of the valley. I only have about 10 shots like this from a list of almost 350 shots. Hope you all like the gray steel of Yosemite, thanks for visiting.