Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Sunshine! It's surprising how many pictures you can make when you don't have to protect your gear and yourself from the elements. I way overdid it today, clicking the shutter more than 350 times. Got some interesting stuff, though, partly from looking in new locations and partly from looking at old locations from a new angle.

It's always hard to figure out which few images I'm going to put up on the journal website. Today, it's samples from three different areas of exploration: waterfalls while avoiding the postcard look, a hike in the forest, and sundown.

My waterfall subjects are familiar in name at least, Upper and Lower Yosemite Falls. That's "Upper" on the left and "Lower" on the right. I used my long lens -- the 70-300mm, or 35mm equivalent of 105-450mm on my digital Nikon - to pick sections of the falls that made interesting visual statements.

While walking through the trees alongside the south loop road, I found the splintered stump of a fallen giant. I photographed it from a number of angles and zoom lengths before settling on this one for today's journal.

The other tree image is a surviving giant, though it's obviously been through a lot. Like an old face, the outer shell of this veteran reveals a lot about the times it's seen, good and bad.

The last two pictures for today were taken from tunnel view (the viewpoint looking eastward down the Yosemite Valley) as the wonderful photographic colors of late afternoon and evening arrived.

The golden rays of late afternoon reveal that El Capitan does have a heart. And when the light ran out facing east down the valley, we turned around and captured the parting colors of a winter sunset.

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