Yosemite and More

A good friend, Dorothy Nielsen, and I went over to the eastern side of the Sierras the other day. It was a great time and she showed me the area around Bishop. An area I had not explored before and was amazed at the color and amount of Aspens.  I had a lot of trouble deciding which photos to post. Hope you agree with my decisions. Comments are always welcome. Okay so the first and second photos aren't of Aspens. My blog, my choice... I love the contrast in these two. As you head down the hill from Tioga Pass if you looked behind you this was just part of the view.  You'll notice no locations are given. They're a secret, and it's not because I can't remember some of the names or that we visited a whole lot of locations. The weather was variable through much of the time we were there. In fact we weren't sure we wouldn't get rained out. Luckily one night it snowed at the higher elevation ...

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...