Valley

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..

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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.

Moving rocks, racetrack Death Valley

• John Muir.

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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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Valley View at Yosemite National Park, CA. We visited Yosemite valley last weekend on a two day trip and was rewarded with some stunning sights and vistas all around this amazing natural wonder. I have been planning this trip since I moved to the USA and finally after 6 years in the east coast when I finally moved to San Francisco I wanted to make this trip as soon as possible. Finally we made the time for the trip and even though most of the park is closed for winter the valley was open and we thoroughly enjoyed the trip. Thanks for visiting more pics to follow..

• Pablo Picasso.

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One of my favorite locations in all of California is the Valley view outlook point at Yosemite National Park. I have posted many photos of this location which provides a stunning view of the majestic El Capitan to the left, the stunning Sentinels with Bridal Veil Falls to the right and the serene Merced River as foreground interest. It’s pretty tough to beat a view as spectacular as this but the real reason I fell in love with this location is the fact that I always got amazing light whenever I was at this spot. This was my go-to spot when the weather was bad or if we are providing a quick drive-by for our relatives or friends who are visiting.

This photo was taken in the past summer when we did a quick tour of Yosemite, As usual, the golden hour kind of coincided with our stop and I managed to get some good shots.

• Thomas Carlyle.

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Another shot from the spectacular valley view scenic vista point at Yosemite Valley. I took this shot when we visited the Yosemite National Park this winter. This is a pretty popular destination and I myself have posted pics from this location before. So I wanted to capture this shot a bit differently and I my opinion his location is spectacular shortly after sunrise. I reached on time and as ready, I also had planned to take a panorama stitch using a slightly normal focal length instead of the Wide angle I usually go for.

While setting up the tripod I realized that the wind had died down and it resulted in almost perfect reflection of the epic peaks on Merced River. This almost never happens for me and I was quick to keep clicking and got about 100 odd pictures before the wind picked up and the reflections were lost. Funny thing was that I had amazing reflection shots at three different locations at the valley that day. Felt pretty cool about that. Thanks for visiting and the encouragement. Hope you all have a great weekend.

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• Walt Whitman.

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Another shot from the Valley view location at Yosemite Valley. This shot was taken just minutes after I took the reflection shot which I posted earlier. As you can see the water flow has been increased and the wind picked up disturbing the calm water. I took this shot just to prominently focus on the cool foreground interests which were visible from this angle.

I didn't had much expectation with this trip to the Yosemite but me and my wife both enjoyed this visit immensely. First we stayed at Curry Village campground and living in a tent even if it’s for two days is a pleasantly surprising experience. This time we just drove around viewing all the amazing scenic points and it was a much more relaxing trip than the last time.

• 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.

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

Shot from the Tunnel View

• 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.

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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The iconic Valley view of Yosemite Valley, I have taken so many pictures at this location that it has practically become a tradition to go here and shoot whenever we visit Yosemite Valley. This time I switched it out though and visited the location just b fore sunset, unlike the usual sunrise shot. Merced River had a decent water flow for this time of the year and there were a huge bunch of photographers setting up for sunset, we were planning on another location for sunset so it was a quick setup and shoot for me. I tried to get some foreground details in the picture to get some depth to the image but there is not much you need to do at this stunning location.

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Shot from the Tunnel View

• John James Audubon.

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If I have to pick one viewpoint in all of Yosemite National Park, I will pick the Valley View viewpoint to emphasize the grandness of the Yosemite Valley. To me, the view from the valley floor with the majestic El Capitan and the Cathedral Rocks anchoring the composition on both sides with the Merced River as foreground interest tells the story of Yosemite Valley better than any other viewpoint.

Over the years, I have taken many images from this location, but we had overcast conditions on this trip, so I had to try something new. I decided to limit the sky in my composition to a minimum and focus more on the Merced River. I had to experiment a bit with the angling of the camera to include more of a mid-ground and making sure I had edge-to-edge focus. Thankfully it all come together in the end.

• Leonardo da Vinci.

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Yosemite valley, so far, has been one of my favorite places on the west coast. But I have had very little luck with conditions every time we visited the valley. Due to the location of the valley, smack in the middle of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the sky tends to be either plain or windy with choke-full of clouds. The first time we visited was immediately after our move to San Francisco, and to be brutally honest, the trip generated only two images that truly stood out.

The second time we visited, timed perfectly with a storm that passed through the valley. We saw clouds piling into the valley as we were shooting the sunset at tunnel view. So we didn’t have much hope for the rest of the weekend, but we decided to soldier on with our plan. We had planned the Valley view photo for the evening, but a very overcast sky and pretty drab conditions greeted us at this classic location. I have about 40 shots here where I persisted with my original plan.

But after a while, I got frustrated with the results and started to think about the conditions. I noticed that both the river and the clouds were moving fast due to the windy conditions. Thankfully I had enough experience with the Lee Big Stopper to know what conditions suit the particular filter. I loved the golden color of the long grass and the contrast it made with the steel blue-grey ambient light. The 10-stop ND filter also helped me bring out some of the details in the movements of the clouds. Changing the type of photography according to the conditions helped me create a decent photograph even in pretty drab conditions.

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