It’s always great to stop at Olmstead Point in Yosemite, which is what I did in June. Below is an image of the side view of Half Dome from the point. I thought a black and white image would be good this time around. What I should’ve done was take out my super telephoto and […]

El Capitan isn’t the only granite feature that people climb in Yosemite. You can find people climbing all over the walls of Yosemite Valley, but a number of people climb the cliffs up in the high country. Below is an image of two climbers that were scaling a section of a granite wall around Tenaya […]

I spent an early morning around Pothole Dome during my June trip to Yosemite. I had the whole area to myself! It seems as if nobody had the idea of doing an early morning hike around the dome that day. Below are two images from that morning. The first is of the Tuolumne River cascading […]

I started my Yosemite trip last month with a sunrise at Tunnel View. There were no clouds in the sky, so the waterfalls seemed to be the best option to photograph. The first image below is of Bridalveil Fall. It was looking pretty good, but as I was looking at the fall, I noticed another […]

It was a waterfall spectacular in Yosemite last weekend! I had a really great time in Yosemite and Mammoth Lake! I just wished it hadn’t ended so quickly. BUT, I’ll be back up in the area in October. Below are some images from the trip. The first two images are of Lower Yosemite Falls. The […]

I’m looking forward to getting up to Yosemite and seeing the waterfalls. Looking at the Yosemite National Park website, Yosemite Falls is flowing really well! Below is an image of Lower Yosemite Falls last October. As you can see there was a little water coming off the top of the cliff. This time of the […]

Below are two images I took while hiking the Grand Wash in Capitol Reef National Park in September last year. I’m happy I did the hike early because on the return trip to the car it started to warm up and there wasn’t as much shade like the hike had at the beginning. The same […]

Below are two images from my Rocky Mountain National Park road trip. It’s an early settler’s cabin that was in Capitol Reef National Park. These early settlers really had some challenges with the environment that was not limited to just heat, but also aggressive flooding. Flash floods were a pretty normal thing for this environment […]

Below are a couple of images from around the Delicate Arch trailhead in Arches National Park. It seems every national park has a small historic cabin which is great because we’re able to see the way early settlers lived in the area. They’re making great progress plowing Tioga Pass in Yosemite! I’m not sure it’ll […]

Below is an image I took while on a hike in Arches National Park on Wednesday, September 27, 2023. It was my second time in the park on the way back from the Rockies. The moon was really amazing that evening and a number of people were taking photos as it rose over the park. […]