Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Aram that's a very fine gallery. I had of course only the very first falls of the season and ANY snow is a novelty for we sub-tropical folks. I'm sure that you could spend a lifetime experiencing the valley in different conditions. Next time I want to go in the Spring. There seem to be two people standing in front of the scenery in a LOT of your photos ;-) Presumably to make everyone jealous. Reading your post, I think that I had my reflections pools mixed up. I plead unfamiliarity with only 2 visits 30 years apart! Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ Pick up your camera and make the best photo you can. -----Original Message----- Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Hoppies in Yosemite, the last photo set I'll kill 2 birds with one stone. Geoff - great shots. The lighting is always best as the weather is changing. Photograph edges, I always say. Richard - I have been to Yosemite three times in the past year. Last January Mirror Lake had some water in it, and it was frozen, of course. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/jan2008/upper-mirror-lake_MG_3047.jpg. html This past Spring it had a lot of water and had good reflections, except it was a bit windy the two days we walked out there. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/sp2008/yosemite/mirror_lake-4368.jpg.h tml Then this past October it was dry as a bone. Looked like a sand desert on teh bottom. But then, this has been a drought year. Can't find my photo of my wife "swimming" on the sand. Must be I never put it on the web and it is at home. So, I am currently sitting in Southern California for a few more weeks hoping a snow storm will drift in by then so I can repeat the performance of last January. Yosemite is magical in the snow. Good pictures where ever you point the camera. Impossible to take a bad picture. Aram