Yosemite and More

I really do need to do a better job of posting. My main problem is I'm not a great fan of editing. And sometime you look at your 'great' photos and say, meh! This is part of my vacation to the North Coast this last summer. Go down a  little and you'll see my post from the Redwoods, previous to that I visited the Lassen Park area. Anyway...........Last time I visited the North Coast (about 25 years ago), Eureka to Crescent City the ocean was angry and the waves were huge and crashing. This time they were as flat as a piece of paper. Somewhat disappointing, in that regard anyway. This first one is taken at the Crescent City Lighthouse on Battery Point. More on the lighthouse in a sec. This was taken from under the pier (obviously) being very careful not  to bang my camera against the rocks or my head against the pier. As you can see the water is smooth as glass. Even the Klamath River was smooth as it entered the Pa

A while back I went over to the Northern California Coast, specifically the Coast Redwoods area of Eureka and Crescent City. There are some great hikes in the Redwoods State and National Parks. The redwoods themselves are awe inspiring and can induce a soar neck from looking up all the time.  One of the problems I faced was trying to produce photos that captured their majesty. Regular lenses couldn't capture their size and  wide angle lenses would distort them and in turn push them back into the photo and reduce their size.  What's a guy to do??  So while I did take a lot of 'tree' photos I decided to concentrate on the smaller things in the forest and on the floor.  The trees themselves do a good job of shading the forest floor and being  on the coast there is a lot of moisture. great for growing ferns and fungi. The size of this fungi is just a little larger than a quarter. You have to look pretty closely, most of the