Thursday, April 27, 2017

Salute to Ansel Adams

I was up at Yosemite earlier this week on a gray day, and it occurred to me that it would be a good time to salute one of the iconic Yosemite photographers of the 20th century, Ansel Adams.  He started shooting pics here as a young man in the 1920s and 30s, and favored black and white...to a large extent, even after color photography became common.  Here's a shot of Yosemite Falls.

Half Dome, with clouds grazing its summit.



The Merced River, running high with snowmelt.  I was staying right next to the river just outside the park and it was roaring like a jet engine!

Yosemite Creek, just below the falls.  With the massive snowmelt, water was running through the woods everywhere in the valley, flooding the meadows, cascading down the cliffs.  The drought is over here!

Lower Yosemite Falls raging!

There were still snowfields near the base of the falls on April 24.  It's much cooler there due to the spray from the icy water.

The upper and lower falls from the trail.  This pic was taken about a quarter mile from the last one.

This tree fell across a branch of the Merced River at Happy Isles in 1996 as a result of a large rockslide on the cliff beyond.  The falling rocks created a compression wave that flattened an area of trees at the bottom of the cliff. As a result, all the downed trees in the area point in the same direction, away from the cliff. 

Ponderosa pine bark.

Granite cliffs above the Ahwanee, streaked with moisture trickling down the rock.

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