Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Three lovely photos to whet our appetites indeed. The place has an irresistible siren call for anyone with an atom of photographer's soul. 4,000,000 visitors a year and yet it endures! Cheers, Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman On 2 September 2012 03:41, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > We spent the last two days in Yosemite, coming back to Oakland late last > night. It was a fantastic place. No photographs I have seen, not even those > by The Master himself, can be compared to seeing the place "live". So > unsurprisingly, there are three pictures for yesterday, as a small > "amuse-bouche" for the gallery to come once I have finished editing the > many pictures. > > We started the day by driving from our hotel near the Arch Rock entrance > to Glacier Point. Along the way, we stopped at Tunnel View and were awed: > > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=2060446957&k=P4h3rWh&lb=1&s=O > > Afterwards we drove back to Yosemite Valley and hiked up to the top of > Vernal Fall, where our efforts were thusly rewarded: > > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=2060447003&k=L3XnHCn&lb=1&s=O > > We finished the day looking at the giant sequoia trees at Mariposa Grove. > These trees are incredible--and difficult to photograph unless one has a > real wide lens. I chose this, uprooted, specimen. The boy is included > purely for scale: > > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=2060476716&k=fwctnbf&lb=1&s=O > > This was my first-ever visit to Yosemite, but definitely not the last. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > > Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman > Blog: > http://www.nathansmusings.eu/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >