Posted on April 6th, 2013 under Other. Tags: getaway rock festival, metal, nikon d7000, opeth, Tamron AF 17-50mm F/2.8. Comments Off on Happy Birthday to Martin Mendez of Opeth!

Upper and Lower Yosemite Falls through the trees

Posted on April 4th, 2013 under Other. Tags: Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 AF-S NIKKOR G ED N, Nikon D600, waterfalls, yosemite national park. Comments Off on Yosemite Falls

Alcatraz Baseball Field

Today is one of my favorite days of the year and not because it’s April Fool’s Day. Opening day* of MLB means the dullness of winter is over, even if there are still some cold days to come.

Today’s photo is from our trip to San Francisco last Thanksgiving. Long before AT&T Park, or even Candlestick Park, there was this baseball diamond with a spectacular view of The City (if you had a vantage point to see over the wall). They played softball, rather than baseball, here on The Rock, and they even kept stats.

* I know there was a game yesterday, but most teams open today.

Posted on April 1st, 2013 under Other. Tags: baseball, Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 lens, Nikon D600, san francisco. Comments Off on Opening day!

Yosemite’s Bridalveil Fall base

For today’s photo I didn’t use a filter. Instead, I sat my camera down on a bridge post, changed the f stop to 25 and left the shutter open for half a second. I brought my tripod with me to Yosemite, but I never had the chance to use it. I would have liked to have taken some photos after dark, but out hotel was an hour away, and we left the park every day before sunset and arrived after sunrise. This is probably the only photo I took with a somewhat long exposure.

Posted on March 30th, 2013 under Other. Tags: Nikon AF-S VR Zoom-NIKKOR 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED Telephoto Lens, Nikon D600, photography, waterfalls, yosemite national park. Comments Off on Silky water

Yosemite’s Vernal Fall

We weren’t planning on hiking up the Mist Trail to Vernal Fall because the trail was supposed to be closed for the season, and we weren’t sure if everyone in our party would be up for it. However, we wanted to see how far we could get. When we got to the “closed” section of the Mist Trail (above the footbridge and below Vernal Fall) people were going around the closed sign, and others (including little kids and babies on backs) were coming down from having hiked the closed section so we followed suit. There was no danger on that part of the trail on this day so I’m not sure why it was closed for the season. Maybe they have fixed dates based on typical snow patterns, and this was a warmer than usual year? There was no snow or ice on the trail. In fact, it was rather warm on this day in late March. We did get wet from the mist but not soaked like some people report in April and May.

I imagine this trail is crazy crowded in the summer. There were plenty of people on the Mist Trail in late March, but I’m guessing it was just a fraction of the normal traffic. This is not a hike you want to miss if you are in Yosemite!

Posted on March 29th, 2013 under Other. Tags: Nikon 24mm f/2.8 AF-D nikkor lens, Nikon D600, waterfalls, yosemite national park. Comments Off on Vernal Fall