Month: July 2009

  • Photo of the Day: Sunrise on Young Lake by Sathish

    So we started the morning with the Morning Shot from Sathish and we’re ending it with an evening shot from Sathish as the Photo of the Day. This beautiful shot is titled Sunset on Young Lake and is a fitting counterpart to this morning’s Sunrise on Young Lake. To me the two kind of tell…

  • Yosemite Visitor Rescued From TIny, Tiny Ledge

    They say, “what goes up, must come down” unfortunately sometimes getting down requires the aid of a helicopter, 3 bolts, long ropes and a team Search and Rescue personell. National Parks Traveler: Park dispatch received a cell phone call from climber Daniel Susman around 10 a.m. on Wednesday, July 15th, in which Susman reported that…

  • Morning Shot July 23 2009

    Today’s Morning Shot was going to be my pick for Photo of the Day last night but it’s such a great morning photos I just had to make it the Morning Shot. You definitely need to go read Sathish’s commentary about how he made this beautiful image. As I waited, the blissful scene slowly unfolded…

  • Unsafe Driving Leads to Two Accidents in 5 Days

    Mather District rangers dealt with two serious accidents that injured a total of 15 people this past week. On July 15th, the driver of a passenger van carrying eight people fell asleep on the Tioga Road east of Yosemite Creek. The van went over the edge, rolling completely at least once on a talus slope…

  • Beautiful Downpour in Tioga Pass

    I happened to check the Tioga Pass webcam tonight and noticed it’d captured a very nice rainbow during an evening downpour. The timestamp on the photo is a little after 7 p.m. tonight. Awesome photo. I’m glad they have the webcams up and allow everyone to see them.

  • Returning To Full Text Feeds

    You may have noticed some time back that I switched over to partial posts in my RSS feed and in the daily email. Why did I change the feed? Well lets just say that my feed was being republished and I didn’t feel it was fair to the nice people who give me permission to…

  • Photo of the Day: Meltwater Pond and Grasses, Mount Gibbs and Kuna Crest, Tuolumne Meadows by G. Dan Mitchell

    Today’s Photo of the Day is another beautiful shot by our friend G. Dan Mitchell. Dan wrote in the caption about this photo: Evening sky is reflected in a meltwater pond at the edge of a Tuolumne Meadows with Mount Gibbs and the Kuna Crest beyond, Yosemite National Park, California. A rather peaceful evening scene,…

  • Morning Shot July 22 2009

    Today’s Forecast: Some clouds this morning making way for sunshine and a cooler (than yesterday) afternoon. Highs in the upper 90s with a chance of thunderstorms again in the afternoon. Overnight lows are expected to be around 66F. Enter your photo to be a Photo of the Day or a Morning Shot: Got a photo…

  • Photo of the Day: Cathedral by Jonathan Fox

    Ok so I got busy watching the directors cut of Watchmen last night and by the time I realized what time it was on the way to bed so I didn’t get the Photo of the Day up. That movie is 3 1/2 hours long! So, without further adieu here’s the Photo of the Day…

  • Morning Shot July 21 2009

    Today’s Morning Shot comes to us from the Mono Lake web cam ran by the Mono Lake Committee. If you’ve never been to Mono Lake then you really have to add it to your list of places to visit. It’s one of the few places in the United States you can actually get out and…