Thursday 5/24/18 We could only afford the $200/night yurt for one night, so we checked out in the morning and drove out to the “end” of the valley near the Upper Pines campground. The goal was to hike one or both of Vernal and Nevada falls, an area of the… Continue reading
Wednesday 5/23/18 We knew that Yosemite was going to be busy even though it was early in the season, every information website we found told us so. But, they have first-come camping at Camp 4 that we thought we’d get in line for when they opened as we had done… Continue reading
Tuesday 5/22/18 We planned to stay a couple nights in King’s Canyon with one day of hiking, so after making coffee and breakfast we went to register the site and hit up the visitor center and figure out what trails to hike. Our first hike was to be a quick… Continue reading
[singlepic id=1778 w=480 float=left] One of the waterfalls in the Smoky Mountains on the trail to Rainbow Falls. This has been about the only place I’ve visited where I really like the warmer tone to the pictures. Typically, I seem to like everything to lean toward the blue-magenta area of… Continue reading
Day 3 was mostly spent at Crater Lake. I like to relax on vacation by demanding that we wake up in time for sunrise and go to take pictures. In light of this, we got up early to head to Watchman overlook with our coffee, but finding clouds there, backtracked… Continue reading
Day 2 was our started by completing the drive to Crater Lake. Like a lot of the National Parks, the area you want to get to ends up being rather remote and it was about a 45 minute drive from the nearest town into the closest visitor center. With that in… Continue reading
It started with a notion that Portland, Oregon would be a nice city to visit. With the house search happening, the notion was not receiving much commitment nor planning. But, since the house dealings were all in order and there wasn’t really anything for me to do but wait, Janet… Continue reading
[singlepic id=1549 w=480 float=left] The second of the waterfalls we hiked to around Crater Lake – Plaikni Falls. The first was Vidae Falls, which was more just a stop along the road and, while taller, was not as impressive. Picture taken with Sony a6000, SEL 18-200mm lens @ 43mm, 0.8… Continue reading
[singlepic id=1321 h=480 float=left] A second picture of Ramsey Falls – this one maybe more ‘interesting’ than particularly good. I had read about a technique of compiling multiple pictures to gain the effect of using a ND filter and slow shutter. This was the outcome of 21 pictures, all taken… Continue reading