I don't see much #waterfallwednesday anymore, and I think that's a shame

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The Sierra Nevada has beautiful waterfalls outside of Yosemite, too 💦

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@douglasvb Let’s be honest - the entire #SierraNevada is one of the most beautiful playgrounds on earth. 😍😍😍

@douglasvb Hope Valley fall colours from a few years back. The photo of the barn was literally taken from the shoulder of 88. #SierraNevada #FallColours #Aspens

Highland Lakes. Mobile Long Exposure. #Sierranevada #photography #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #landscapephotography #longexposure

MARIPOSA LILLIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111 😍😍😍 #BloomScrolling #Florespondence #SierraNevada

Started the day without a plan but it ended just fine IMO.
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Cirque to Langley and back to Cirque in a day. Meant to check conditions up Rock Creek, got distracted by dry summits.
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Long weekend vibes. Time above tree line and a peek into the interior to see conditions.
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Not able to run distance on snowy trail, I went off trail to scramble a ridge line instead. I’ve covered half this ridge before so it was fun trying the other half and tying it all together.

I’m not climber (too slow), but a class 2-4 ridge like this is fun to feel progress traversing across. Had to cut around some snow and exposure beyond my ability, but I aways found a way forward inch by inch.

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Night shots with the phone. Full moon lighting up everything.
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Scrambled around freestyle off trail all night, bivied for a few hours in the morning. Heading for an easy summit now, all clear no snow.
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Full moon blazing, headlamp turned off.
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Night hike to enjoy full moon and check trail conditions.
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Yosemite Valley Forest. © Copyright 2023 G Dan Mitchell.

A Yosemite Valley forest of conifers and spring dogwood trees.

In an earlier post I described my “typical day” on one of my long, one-day visits to the Sierra. (I don’t recommend this approach, and I’d rather have had time to stay longer — but it was a choice between a quick visit and no visit.) I mentioned than, unsurprisingly, the early morning and evening hours are the most conducive to photography. But if I keep at it during the midday hours I can usually find some things that are worth the effort.

Continues: https://gdanmitchell.com/2023/06/28/yosemite-valley-forest/

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Comparison of the snow in the Sierra Nevada near Mono Lake. First shot is May 17, 2023. Second is June 20, 2023. Not a very dramatic difference in snow level, I’m glad to see.

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Trees, Merced River, Bridal Veil Fall. © Copyright 2023 G Dan Mitchell.

Bridal Veil Fall, beyond the Merced River and silhouetted trees.

Something tells me that I am not the first person to photograph this waterfall between these trees — but it was there and I was there, so I made a photograph. I like the fact that the waterfall is almost an afterthought, a minor element in a scene that is mostly about other things — especially the silhouettes of these trees and the reflections on the high water in the Merced River.

Continues: https://gdanmitchell.com/2023/06/21/trees-merced-river-bridal-veil-fall/

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Ribbon Fall. © Copyright 2023 G Dan Mitchell.

Yosemite Valley’s Ribbon Fall in full flow during the historic 2023 spring runoff.

Let’s begin with by acknowledging that this is a bit of a “record shot” — a photograph whose purpose is as much to record of a thing as to produce an aesthetic effect. But in a year of weather and climate extremes in the Sierra, a few record shots seem to be in order. Ribbon Fall drops from a point high on the walls of Yosemite Valley to the west of El Capitan. You might not know about it since it is often dry. However, in addition to being a seasonal fall, its main claim to fame is that it has the largest uninterrupted drop of any Yosemite waterfall, even exceeding that of Upper Yosemite Fall.

Continues: https://gdanmitchell.com/2023/06/17/ribbon-fall/

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Forest, Meadow, and Cliffs. © Copyright 2023 G Dan Mitchell.

A green springtime meadow near the base of steep Yosemite Valley granite cliffs.

While clear, sharp-edged light and atmosphere are great when I want to show detail and/or photograph something a long ways off, soft and low-contrast light with a bit of haze is often more evocative. That’s what you see in this photograph, made near the end of the day as the sun was low, its light filtered through afternoon haze and muting the colors just a bit.

Continues: https://gdanmitchell.com/2023/06/10/forest-meadow-and-cliffs

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Trees At The Meadow. © Copyright 2023 G Dan Mitchell.

A line of old, tall trees next to a Yosemite Valley meadow.

This comes from my one-day trip to Yosemite Valley and back — an ordeal I tolerate from time to time when something interesting is happening in the Valley and my schedule doesn’t permit a longer visit. This time I realized that the crowds of Memorial Day weekend and beyond were days away, and that I had not yet photographed the spring runoff. There are (obviously!) some downsides to driving 400 miles round-trip, starting around 3:00AM, photographing through the day, and not returning home until after midnight. One is that there are a lot of hours between the ideal early and late light.

Continues: https://gdanmitchell.com/2023/06/08/trees-at-the-meadow

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