At some point in the Winter of 2010 I saw my first shot of the firefall effect on Horsetail Fall in Yosemite. It may very well have been on 500px and at first glance, I thought I was looking at lava pouring off a cliff in a forest. Intrigued, I read the description and was […]
Author: William McIntosh
Snowed In At Yosemite National Park
First of all, please accept my apologies for neglected my blog for a few months. Since my last post, my daughter got married, I shot like a crazy man during the Summer, added an online class to my curriculum, made another trip to Europe and a quick trip up the Oregon Coast, and I’m just […]
A Stormy Day In The Alabama Hills
Last Monday I headed up to the Alabama Hills to try out some time-lapse with some stormy skies. This was my first official attempt at time-lapse after experimenting a bit over the past few weeks. I have been heavily influenced by both Michael Shainblum and Michael Oblinski, and while this attempt isn’t remotely close to […]
Horsetail Firefall Update, 2019
I just got back after spending two weeks shooting some fairly heavy snow storms in Yosemite. I hope to have a blog post at some point in the next couple of weeks, but in the mean time, I wanted to give an update on the Horsetail situation for 2019. As most of you are aware […]
A Look Back At 2018
I’m a day or two late with this as I was camping out near Lake Powell over the last couple of days with overnight lows hovering around 12 degrees. Here’s a look back at the photos I took or edited in 2018. Looking forward to more photography in 2019!
Time Is Running Out For Jasper National Park
One of the most iconic photo spots in the Canadian Rockies has to be Spirit Island which is located in the middle of Maligne Lake in Jasper National Park. This island had been known for hundreds of years to the First Nation Tribes and early settlers, but it really began
Discovering Beauty And Danger In South Africa
Last September I was already making plans for my vacation in Summer 2018. I knew I wanted to hit the Southwest again, especially during July to get some Milkyway photos and to spend more time in the Bisti Badlands and possibly the North rim of the Grand Canyon, but an opportunity suddenly arose when my […]
The Many Faces Of Badwater Basin
I saw my first photos of Badwater Basin many years ago. The vast, white hexagons spreading out to the horizon instantly grabbed my attention as I couldn’t tell if I was looking at ice, snow or sand. It turned out to be none of those as I was actually looking at salt. Couple that with […]
Yosemite’s Horsetail Fall Parking Is Now By Permit Only (2018)
When Galen Rowell took his now infamous shot of the Horsetail Fall effect in February of 1973 there may have been a few people around gazing at the falls, but it was primarily Galen and a single Ranger who were standing in just the right spot. Last year, literally thousands of people
A Glimpse of Triglav National Park
In spite of my crazy schedule on my last trip to Europe, I had planned to make a trip into Triglav National Park while I was in Slovenia. While I did manage to make a couple of trips to Lake Bohinj, my trip into the center of the park was