Category: Yosemite Photos

  • Photo of the Day: Mama Bambi by Henrik Lehnerer

    Today’s Photo of the Day is a really cool shot of a mother deer sent in by Henrik Lehnerer. Great shot Henrik. Thanks for sending it in. Remember if you’d like to submit a photo you can email the photo or a link to LOYD@YOSEMITEBLOG.COM or simply tag your photo on Flickr with yosemiteblogcom. Also…

  • Photo of the Day: Vernal Falls by Kankakee Carl

    Today’s Photo of the Day is the classic Vernal Falls with rainbow. Gotta admit, it’s a great shot and I have yet to try to for a shot of the falls with the rainbow. Nice job Carl. Photo by Kankakee Carl via Flickr.

  • Calling all Flickrfolken!

    There is a contest going on by Moo.com for holiday card images; Do you know Moo.com? They are the folks who make the way cool mini-cards; Upload your shots from Flickr, customize them to your specifications, send the good folks $24.95 and get 50 mini-cards with your images printed on them! Anyway, they are holding…

  • Photo of the Day: Yosemite Fires by Rob Pughsley

    Today’s Photo of the Day is one of those “right place at the right time” shots that I always enjoy finding. Rob was in the perfect place to catch the smoke from the controlled burn in Yosemite Valley wafting around the chapel. Pretty cool. Great shot Rob. Photo by Rob Pughsley via Flickr.

  • Photo of the Day: Band of Light on El Capitan by Kit Ng

    Today’s Photo of the Day is another beautiful shot from Kit Ng. This one is titled “Band of Light on El Capitan”. Great shot Kit. Photo by Kit Ng via Flickr. Technorati Tags: California, nature photography, photo of the day, photography, yosemite, yosemite valley

  • Inspiration from Flickr

    Since I arrived in Yosemite 2 and a half years ago, I’ve paid particular attention to Flickr.com as a source of information and inspiration for prospective images. There are several Flickr members that inspire me; Paige Falk, Buck Forester, G Dan Mitchell to name a few. It was Buck’s image of Temple Crag that lead…

  • Photo of the Day: Lone Tree, Half Dome in Cloud by Kit Ng

    Today’s Photo of the Day is an awesome black and white from Kit Ng of Half Dome wrapped in clouds. What a fabulous shot. Very nice Kit. Photo by Kit Ng via Flickr. Technorati Tags: California, photo of the day, photography, travel, vacation, yosemite, yosemite valley

  • Photo of the Day: iPhone atop Half Dome! by Min Liu

    Every-so-often I come a cross a photo in my search for Photo of the Day that makes me smile. Today’s Photo of the Day comes from Min Liu who took her Apple iPhone hiking with her to the top of Half Dome. Min says: “I got full reception atop Half Dome in Yosemite “no reception”…

  • Fall Colors Drawing Crowds to Yosemite

    Pooja Aggarwal at the Beyond Here blog took the short drive up to Yosemite from the Bay Area to see the fall colors and did an awesome write-up of his trip. Beyond Here: We set off early morning (5 am – I absolutely insisted we leave early) and were inside the park by 9 am.…

  • Photo of the Day: Hetch Hetchy by Jared Kelly

    Most people think of [O’Shaughnessy Dam] as being a behemoth that holds back the Tuolumne keeping [Hetch Hetchy] Valley submerged beneath hundreds of feet of water. Jared Kelly has managed to catch a different side of the dam in today’s Photo of the Day showing what a beautiful place Hetch Hetchy still is even though…