[Leica] Nathan's PAD 31/8/2012: looking for Ansel's tripod holes

[ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)]

you are well spending your good luck in life

ric


On Sep 1, 2012, at 1:41 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> We spent the last two days in Yosemite, coming back to Oakland late last 
> night. It was a fantastic place. No photographs I have seen, not even 
> those by The Master himself, can be compared to seeing the place "live". 
> So unsurprisingly, there are three pictures for yesterday, as a small 
> "amuse-bouche" for the gallery to come once I have finished editing the 
> many pictures.
> 
> We started the day by driving from our hotel near the Arch Rock entrance 
> to Glacier Point. Along the way, we stopped at Tunnel View and were awed:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=2060446957&k=P4h3rWh&lb=1&s=O
> 
> Afterwards we drove back to Yosemite Valley and hiked up to the top of 
> Vernal Fall, where our efforts were thusly rewarded:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=2060447003&k=L3XnHCn&lb=1&s=O
> 
> We finished the day looking at the giant sequoia trees at Mariposa Grove. 
> These trees are incredible--and difficult to photograph unless one has a 
> real wide lens. I chose this, uprooted, specimen. The boy is included 
> purely for scale:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=2060476716&k=fwctnbf&lb=1&s=O
> 
> This was my first-ever visit to Yosemite, but definitely not the last.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nathan
> 
> Nathan Wajsman
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