Category: Photography
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Using Flickr and Some Thoughts About Photos Online
Sometimes someone sends me a link to a photo they’ve posted on Flickr and say, “You can use this photo as Photo of the Day”. Well I would REALLY, REALLY like to but…I can’t. Flickr won’t let me. Many of the photos I choose for Photo of the Day are stored on Flickr’s servers. To…
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Is that…Half Dome?
Paul Davis sent me this photo proving that you don’t have to drive way out in the country to see Half Dome from the Central Valley, in fact, he took this shot at Highway 99 and Fulkerth Road in Turlock, California. If you click the photo you’ll see a larger (not as large as the…
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Biggest Full Moon of the Year Tonight
The full moon will appear it’s largest tonight, Friday 29, 2010. Photo by R. Kurtz. If you love photographing Yosemite’s majestic cliffs and waterfalls at night tonight may be a great night to do some shooting, if the clouds don’t get in the way. Tonight the moon will be closest in it’s orbit to the…
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Michael Frye Has a New Blog
Michael Frye, our good friend and author of The Photographer’s Guide to Yosemite , Yosemite Meditations, and Digital Landscape Photography: In the Footsteps of Ansel Adams and the Masters, has moved his blog. You can find his new blog over at http://www.michaelfrye.com/landscape-photography-blog/. If you’ve been thinking about taking a photography class then check out some…
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What are you waiting for?
Normally when I’m looking for a Photo of the Day one of the first places I look is the Yosemite Blog Group on Flickr. There’s always amazingly beautiful photos in the group pool. That’s why I wanted to take a moment to give a shout out to all the people posting those photos, the members…
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Photo Contest Could Win You a Copy of Ken Burns Documentary
In celebration of the Ken Burns PBS documentary, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, The Daily Green (a Hearst publication), Paramount and PBS are giving away $200 worth of prizes to the person for your photo of one of our National Parks. Of all the entries one winner will be selected based on composition, aesthetics,…
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Ghosts, Boogey Men and Bodie
Some of the things I dig up, I tell you. Check out this photo story from a few years back. My 2 year old son is narrating our trip to Bodie with my in-laws. So, if your spouses parents aren’t happy with you does that make them “out-laws”? HAHAHA…uh yee-ah…now you’ll understand who wrote the…
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Some Color But Nothing to Write Home About
Fall in the Eastern Sierra is punctuated by brilliant golden groves of aspen trees. Photo by Loyd Schutte. I’ve been getting emails and twitters all day about fall color in the Eastern Sierra. Some trees are indeed turning yellow but they’re still mostly a yellowish green. Looks like it’ll be another week before we really…
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Star Bright, Star Light, First Star I See Tonight
Photo courtesy NPS. One of the things I hear from people who’ve just experienced their first night in Yosemite is, “God I can’t believe how many stars there are here!” The stars are exactly the same as where you live, we just don’t have as much light pollution drowning out their light. In fact, Tuolumne…
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World’s First Photo Wasn’t of Yosemite *GASP!*
Worlds first photograph by French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. Photo courtesy National Geographic. In 1826, French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, the worlds first photograph. Titled View from the Window at Le Gras the photo was shot at his family’s country home of a courtyard and outbuildings seen from the house’s upstairs window—by exposing a bitumen-coated…