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Rim Fire News
Pastel-colored smoke from the Rim Fire at sunset, 8/26/13, Yosemite NP, CA, USA I’ve been spending every spare moment photographing the Rim Fire, but I’ve finally had a chance to process some images. I...
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Star Trails Over the Rim Fire
Star trails over the Rim Fire, 8/24/13, Yosemite National Park On Saturday, August 24th, Claudia and I hiked cross-country to a spot near the Tioga Road with a view of the Rim Fire. I’d picked out this...
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After the Fire
Poppies, lupine, and oaks blooming in an area burned by the 1990 A-Rock Fire, near El Portal, CA (photograph from April 2009) Yesterday the Rim Fire reached an estimated 237,341 acres in size. That...
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Saving the Sequoias During the Rim Fire
Giant sequoias in fog, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite NP, CA, USA I thought this was an interesting story in the L.A. Times about efforts to save Yosemite’s giant sequoia trees and old-growth sugar pines...
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Top Posts of 2013: Adventures
Rain squall over Yosemite Valley from near Old Inspiration Point, Yosemite Photography encourages us to go to new places, and to be out during the most beautiful times of day when others are asleep or...
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A Surreal Night
El Portal Fire from the Glacier Point Road; 1:51 a.m., 7/27/14 We had no inkling that anything was wrong until we reached Crane Flat, where a ranger told us the road down to Yosemite Valley was closed....
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Smoky Beauty
Sun rising through smoke from Tunnel View, 7/28/14, Yosemite NP, CA, USA Early Monday morning I drove up to Yosemite Valley, hoping that smoke from the El Portal and Dark Hole fires might create some...
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My Most Popular Posts of 2014
Alders and sunbeams, Redwood NP. My most popular post in 2014 was a review of the Sony A7r, the camera used for this photo. The Sony sensor allowed me to capture great detail, and also lighten shadows...
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Dodging the Walker Fire
Helicopter over the Walker Fire from Highway 395, last Sunday evening Our Starry Skies Adventure workshop turned out to be a little more adventurous than we thought. Just before we left our home in...
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Under the Stars
Tufa and stars (with Perseus and the Pleiades), Mono Lake. I lit the tufa formations with a flashlight during the 15-second exposure; it only took a brief pass with the light to provide sufficient...
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