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Well what can I say. Yosemite is an amazingly beautiful place. I have come back with loads of great images I am really pleased with. These 18 here are picked almost at random as there are so many I like!
Mid september is probably a pretty good time to go. Weather was warm but not painfully hot and the tourist count was below average as the season is getting late. Sometime a coach tour would descend on a location and there would be loads of Japanese or Germans getting in the way but most of the time we had the stop locations on the roads pretty much to ourselves.
As to camera equipment there were times when I'd have liked something wider that the 17-40L but on the whole it has been a star performer. The polarising filter made a huge difference too. I tried to buy a 24-105 before I went. If I had got it then I think I would still have used the 17-40 most of the time.
Yosemite has a green valley with camping sites and shops etc with a tourist one way route through it all. Another road takes you up to a high view point. Lastly there is a road right through the park up high which is the way we left to go to the next place. That road was the best part of the park to me.
Anyway the pictures........
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Thought the squirrel was a stuffed toy he kept so still! Moved when I was about 2 ft away.
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Was all a bit too steep for Jill to move too far from the car :)
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geoffd70
25-09-2006, 13:45
What a superb bunch of pics :thumbs:
Dark Star
25-09-2006, 14:14
Fantastic Rob - slightly more 'vast' than the Lake District I'd say.
The low level lake side ones work best for me - all fantastic though - 18 down, 1,382 to go!
John
I'll just add a :clap: a :notworthy:. Seriously mate they are some beautiful shots. I'll respond properly this evening....just on my way out, going swimming :D
RickMezza
25-09-2006, 16:22
Excellent pics there. Looks truly stunning and I'd love to go there one day.
Rich
h.r.ford
25-09-2006, 16:33
Just just WOW!
I think the Americans would say 'Awesome'. But being typically British and reserved, I will leave it at....
THESE ROCK
They give a great impression of the vast size of the place.
I'd have to say my favourites are #2, #6, #12, #14 and #17.
You've really captured the essence of the place (Well I think so, because I haven't been there). I love the ones that show just how big the place is.
Thanks for the kind words but I think the place contributed more than the photographer :)
The pictures give a fair impression of Yosemite but are nothing like seeing it for yourself. I know when I get round to the grand canyon shots that they can never convey the scale of the place!
I hate you.
I really really really hate you.
It's bad enough me thinking that my Yosemite photographs, that I'll be taking in just 25 days, won't be nowhere near up to your standard.........
then you go and mention the GC :bang: :bang:
aaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrgggghh!! :gag:
Go on. Do your worst. Tell me where else you went. If we have the same ******* itineries then I'm going to swap my holiday for a week in Scunthorpe :eek:
breathtaking - I love 3,5 and 7, and most of the second post.
Somewhere I hope to see before I die...
can you walk through the park, or can you just drive?
joking aside - 1, 3, 5, 6 are the best for me. They show the vastness of the place.
Did you lug around a tripod/monopod or go au naturel? I've bought a lightweight monopod. I just can't decide whether to pack it or not.
I still hate you!
Didn't see any park buses like they have in other parks which are free and included in the $20 park entrance fee (per car and last a week) but there were tourist coaches doing the rounds so there must be tours available. You would not see much of it on foot. Tioga pass is a must though.
2blue - You cannot fail ... the photos scream at you to be taken!
Jill makes all the arrangements as I have no patience for planning.
As i remember it
Flew in to San Francisco after that
drove to Yosemite
Then Mammoth Mountain
Long drive to Las Vegas and the Luxor (hated Vegas so took a day out to lake mead and hoover dam)
Then to Zion national park
down to the grand canyon south rim
Lake Havasu City (where London bridge is now)
and back to Vegas for the flight home!
Got a feeling I missed something there :thinking:
Sunset on the canyon rim would be easier with a tripod as low light means longer shutters but i managed without one. Get there early though as all the good spots go early. Bloody dark getting back afterwards.
At mammoth mountain we happened to look up at the night sky. That blew me away too. Altitude and no light pollution so many stars and bright smudges it was amazing.
Thanks for that. We're doing SF for a few days before a week in Vegas. We're having a South Rim trip but I can't make up my mind whether to take a West Rim trip as well or to drive there. It is a long way. Then we end up in Portsmouth for a few days. No really. Wentworth by the Sea.
Dark Star
26-09-2006, 00:24
You missed my Frisbee Rob!!!
John
WOW! - I'd love to visit this place - your photographs capture the feel of it perfectly - Paul ;)
I think the Americans would say 'Awesome'. But being typically British and reserved, I will leave it at....
Blast!! I say awesome all of the time & I am British (I must just be unreserved) :lol:
Really great set of images there, I'm going to have to start a separate savings account to visit the places everyone makes look so amazing (my wallet is already kicking my ass since it heard I was looking at a new lens :p )
HIMUPNORTH
28-09-2006, 12:51
Great stuff Rob.
We pulled out of Yosemite during our visit to California last year because of flooding :boo hoo:
Your shots make me want to go back!
Forbiddenbiker
28-09-2006, 13:23
Wow, beautiful shots of a beautiful place, what a fantastic trip you've had Rob, Staggering scenery...I’m so jealous. :D
Just in case you would like to know. I especially like 4, 5, 6, and 10 in the first set.... And 2, 3 and 4 in the second set.
More please. :thumbs:
Great shots, you must have had a fantastic time. It looks scorching too...not suprisingly given the location.
:clap:
WOW!
Dont know how I missed these first time around but they are truly awesome pictures.
Thanks for sharing Robert! :thumbs:
Ansel Adams territory that. Isn't that the rock from 'Close Encounters' in No 3?
Fantastic shots Robert. :thumbs:
Catdaddy
08-11-2006, 00:47
Superb series of shots, Robert. The bird in #5 makes it really work for me :thumbs:
Stunning shots.
Not been to Josemite yet, plan to. Been to the other spots on your list, including Vegas, which I was also very unimpressed with.
How did you find the Grand Canyon?
By find I mean arrive at it. And couldnt beleive how well the place is hidden :)
We went there by car, pulled up at the usual nondiscript ranger pay booth, handed over a few notes and drove in. Drove some more and a bit more, we were beginning to wonder where this mile wide Canyon thing was when it litterally appeared. 20ft away as we poked up over a low rise.... Stunning.
That was back in the days of film so I guess we have to go back.
(Boring drive from Vegas/Hoover Damn -> Flagstaff isnt it?)
I did a holiday report page with lots of pictures
here (http://www.robertpeacock.co.uk/)
Some of it is duplicates from forum posts some new.
We didn't take the same route Oldigt. Stayed on the south rim. Grand canyon is so big you still can't take it in even when stood on the edge!
Oh and I think the Yosemite rock was called 'half dome'
ashworthacca
08-11-2006, 10:08
No 6 does it for me. Really, really like it.
These are superb shots, would love to visit there sometime.
Martin
Its a wonderful place isnt it?
Your...
I did a holiday report page with lots of pictures
here (http://www.robertpeacock.co.uk/)
Is great. Brings back lots of memories, and new additions to wishlist.
Paul
Oh and I think the Yosemite rock was called 'half dome'
Doh! Course it is! A favourite subject of Adams.
The 'Close Encounters' rock is 'Devil's Tower' Wyoming.
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