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 […]
Winter
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 […]
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 […]
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
Winter Storms Have Created Rare Photographic Conditions In Yosemite
After several years of drought here in California, we are finally having a true rainy season this year. Over the past few weeks, a series of storms rolled through our state providing much needed water for our reservoirs and snow in our local mountains and the Sierras. All of this extra moisture has caused some […]
Tips On Shooting Yosemite In The Snow
The snowfall this Winter is already off to a much better start in Yosemite National Park. Last year, it barely snowed at all and when it did, only a couple of inches fell in the valley. This year, the fourth snowfall in the valley is due to arrive this afternoon giving the park it’s first […]