Today’s Photo of the Day is a REALLY beautiful shot of the Valley covered in snow reflecting in the still Merced River by Jason Armstrong. Jason said in his caption on Flickr:
Haven’t noticed this before but the valley has wifi from pretty much everywhere we went, this brings a lot to the table. Being a complete dork I had to take advantage of the situation. So pulled out the iphone and checked the azimuth of the sun/moon then their position is plotted against my location on google maps and put it in motion to see where I wanted to be at what time time and how much time I could spend, this is something that used to take a lot of seemingly unnecessary work and a result isn’t the most accurate or easy to interpret. Additionally it was great to be able to monitor all the weather data I could handle :), this was particularly important at the tunnel view because clouds moved in but I didn’t leave because 1) checked the ahwanhee cam and it didn’t look favorable 2) pulled up weather data from surrounding weather stations and determined that conditions were very clear under the cloud ceiling combined with the sun/moon compass app it was easier to see that there was at least a chance for the sun to peak out from under the clouds before setting. It was great getting the storm chasing experience without the price tag of satellite data feeds, one more reason to love Yosemite 🙂
Beautiful shot, Jason. Nice work.
Photo by Jason Armstrong via Flickr.