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  • Photo of the Day: Eastern Sierra in Black and White by Edie Howe-Byrne

    Today’s Photo of the Day is a damn nice black and white of the Eastern Sierra that Edie shot on a recent trip. What makes it a great shots? The whites are white, the blacks are black, there’s great tonal range, nothing is blown out really bad, things are sharp, contrast is good and it’s…

  • 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.…

  • Earthquake!

    We just had an earthquake; Loyd IM’d me as I was IMing a friend in Florida with the same message: “Earthquake!” As always, Loyd was Johnny-on-the -spot with this link: http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/122-37.html He thought it was about 7, but it turns out to be about 5.6. Now, back to your regularly scheduled Yosemiteblog, now in progress.…

  • It’s Different in the Winter

    Yosemite is a different place in the winter, one that the millions of visitors who only come during the busy season (June, July, August) never see. It’s a little more quiet, there’s a little more solitude and life takes on a slower pace as the surrounding mountains lie under a deep blanket of snow. Don’t…

  • 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…

  • Name That Thing

    Quite a few people know Jeremy Zawodny for his blog that provides an insightful look behind the doors of one of the internets oldest search engines, Yahoo! (as well as his exploits at the controls of a glier). To make a long story short, Jeremy has posted a bunch of photo from his recent trip…

  • Taking the larger view.

    Sometimes you have to take a chance. The rain stopped, and I drive up to Glacier point to take some sunset shots; This is a stitched panoramic. Now it’s raining again. Photo by Edie Howe-Byrne.

  • Yosemite Possible Target for Terrorists?

    Following the massive wildfires in Southern California that left dozens homeless and the revelation that atleast one of the fires was deliberate officials are now starting to wonder if the incident could have been terrorist related. Homelandsecurityus.com: “Within the last 90 days, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI issued warnings to fire…

  • Sometimes it’s not about intense color

    Tunnel View is probably one of the world’s most photographed sights. And as such, it’s difficult to do it with any sort of originality. You have to depend on Mother Nature to provide a fresh perspective. Tonight was a temptation; We had a late afternoon shower that washed away the smoke from the SoCal fires,…