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Fujifilm XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4 OIS

02/23/2005 08:46:49 AM · #1

Hi All,

I just got back from spending 3 weeks in America and wanted to share some of the photos I took there.

Here are some from Yosemite:

And here are some from around San Francisco:

All the rest can be found in my portfolio. Hope you like them!

docpjv

Fujifilm X-E1

02/23/2005 09:05:26 AM · #2

Excellent pics.. making some my favorites.

Sony 16-35mm f/4 Vario-Tessar T* FE ZA OSS Lens

02/23/2005 09:56:49 AM · #3

Thanks Gibun!

bryanbrazil

Sony Alpha a7R III

02/23/2005 11:25:42 AM · #4

Great photos! I especially like the El Capitan picture. I live about 3 hours from Yosemite, so I've been there twice already this year.

Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8D ED

02/23/2005 06:08:40 PM · #5

Thanks, Bryan. It was my first time to go to Yosemite in the winter and also the first shoot with my new Canon 17-40mm L lens, which I used almost exclusively there. I really love that lens!

vivien

Sony DSC-F717

02/23/2005 06:11:46 PM · #6

Love them all,thanks for sharing!!!(been to Us also but ddn't get the chance to go to Yosemite)

LEONJR

Fujifilm FinePix S3 Pro

02/23/2005 06:25:43 PM · #7

That first picture is that a volcano? I cant really tell because you know the clouds and everything...
LEon

megryan

Nikon D300

02/23/2005 06:29:08 PM · #8

nice striking pictures Philip ! I'd love to see Yosemite. My husband and I did a trip to Canada a few years back and crossed the border into Montana and saw Glacier Park but lacked to the time to go further and see yellowstone and Yosemite..... We had a motorhome(trailer) and was on a time schedule to get back to Vancouver in 5 days !!!! what a pity ! Who knows one day we might see it ! ;-)

GeneralE

Canon PowerShot S3 IS

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

02/23/2005 06:55:38 PM · #9

Originally posted by LEONJR:

That first picture is that a volcano? I cant really tell because you know the clouds and everything...
LEon

No volcanoes in Yosemite. I believe the granite formations were intrusions into other, pre-existing rocks, which were later eroded away.

There are volcanoes farther north in California: near Mammoth Mountain, Mt. Lassen, Mt. Shasta. Moving up through Oregon and Washington you have more of the Cascade Range: Mt. Saint Helens, Mt. Hood ...
Mt. Rainier : )

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

02/23/2005 07:00:47 PM · #10

Thanks everyone! I highly recommend going to Yosemite, and really liked seeing it in winter - lots of snow and water.

You're right General, that's not a volcano, just a mountain that was cut back a little by a retreating glacier. That's what resulted in all those big clear rock faces throughout the park. Well worth checking out if you've never seen it before.

GeneralE

Canon PowerShot S3 IS

02/23/2005 07:07:09 PM · #11

Originally posted by PhilipDyer:

I was lucky enough to go as a kid, though rarely since then. I got to see something I don't think happens anymore, the Fire Falls from Glacier Point -- basically a bonfire of logs as big as a small house, pushed over the edge of a cliff by bulldozers after dark for the entertainment of the campers on the valley floor. And one night my dad had to chase away some bears ...

If you don't need to see the landmarks, there's huge amounts of beautiful area outside the overcrowded Valley proper, and there's another National Park (Sequoia) just to the south.

Unfortunately, the Hetch-Hetchy Valley, just to the north of Yosemite and (according to John Muir) even more spectacularly beautiful, for the last 100 years has resided under San Francisco's water supply.

Message edited by author 2005-02-23 19:11:14.

TechnoShroom

Canon EOS-30D

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro

02/23/2005 07:56:17 PM · #12

Originally posted by GeneralE:

I was lucky enough to go as a kid, though rarely since then. I got to see something I don't think happens anymore, the Fire Falls from Glacier Point...

Yep... you're right. The last firefall was in 1968. I remember going to Yosemite in the mid-70's as a child and the family being dissappointed because we heard of and wanted to see this. People can read about it here... Yosemite Firefall. If you scan your TV listings there was a segment about it on California's Gold. A web search will also turn up lots of pictures.

faidoi

Pentax K10D

Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF

03/01/2005 05:16:53 PM · #13

Originally posted by TechnoShroom:

Originally posted by GeneralE:
I was lucky enough to go as a kid, though rarely since then. I got to see something I don't think happens anymore, the Fire Falls from Glacier Point...

Yep... you're right. The last firefall was in 1968. I remember going to Yosemite in the mid-70's as a child and the family being dissappointed because we heard of and wanted to see this. People can read about it here... Yosemite Firefall. If you scan your TV listings there was a segment about it on California's Gold. A web search will also turn up lots of pictures.

Episode is currently on tv right now on KQED.

mirdonamy