Nighttime on the Merced Three more from Valley View. Summer ended slowly in Yosemite Valley this year. Early October found us along the shores of the Merced, grateful for the cool evening brought and basking in the silver and gold of a full moon. The full-throated rush of the springtime Merced had faded to a...
A walk through the cathedral grove. A quick post with a bunch of photographs and just a few words to share with you the pleasure of walking through the peaceful groves of Muir Woods National Monument in the early afternoon. I was lucky enough to share this walk with my family and my sister-in-law and...
The Nisqually’s vast tongue of devastation. More from Rainier. The Pacific Northwest—being renowned for the regularity of its deluges during the rainy season—provides ample opportunity for the great bulwark of Rainier to turn rain into snow, and in so doing accumulate an ice-cap of daunting proportions. The spring melts are correspondingly massive. For proof, one...
Luminous above and below. In Yosemite with two friends, one an avid photographer who had never been, moonless night and clear skies—you can guess where our thoughts were headed. We opted to face south, so as to capture the more brilliant central disc of the Milky Way. The grassy meadows of the Merced’s flood plain...
I’ve had the pleasure of perching a camera atop the same fallen tree at an area affectionately called “Valley View” more times than I can count over the last few years. Some long-forgotten torrent lodged two enormous pine carcasses against the roadside on the northern section of the park road loop. Clambering over these giants,...
