Yosemite Oct 2014

Ok, this has been a while.  I've not posted travel shots here since Apple stopped supporting Aperture.  Well that is a poor excuse, but I did have trouble converting to a new workflow.  Thus many, many pictures and a new processing method and I think I'm starting to get into things again.

Anyway, I will be posting back travel as I get things finished but I don't think I'll post things in order.  That is just too organized for me.

So what have I replaced Aperture with?  For now it is DxO Optics Pro 10.  It seems to have matured since I purchased it at Pro 8 or I have started to get used to how it does things, either way I've started to learn it.

So this was our trip to Yosemite in October 2014.  This was the 3rd year of the 4 year drought and we did not get back to the same areas in 2015.

So this is Half Dome from Glacier Point.  This was actually my first time to Glacier Point which is surprising since we go to Yosemite almost every year.  This second picture is of Vernal Falls.  I do not have a good idea about how the drought affected this falls but we will see later how small it has become since we hiked there later that weekend.

 

These two are Nevada Falls.  Close up and of the valley.  These falls are right above Vernal and you can see the edge of Vernal in the second picture.

Now we come to Bridalveil Falls.  Alway like stopping here for a short visit but the last two times our daughter loves to climb on the rocks and hike all the way to under the falls.

These last ones I am standing basically under the falls.

This is now at Vernal Falls.

The second one is of the upper lake above Vernal and the water flow over the rocks is from the Nevada Falls.

Ok picture of a Sequoia.

Lastly, we stay at Yosemite Lakes, in a Yurt.  Interesting stay, pretty nice, rustic but not too much.  But it did allow me to get out and take some night shots.  The Yurt under the stars.

Yosemite

Qun's brother came into town recently and she wanted to take him to Yosemite.  Even though there was the Rim fire, most of Yosemite did not burn.  So this is the first time we went off season and it was fantastic.  I can not say how much I enjoyed driving around and not have to deal with traffic.  We where told that early spring and winter are even better!

Entering the park.

Here is the first little waterfall that we saw.

Here is Brideviel Falls as you entry the valley.  There was very little water and the wind turned most of it to mist.  (Yes my daughter and I climbed quite a ways to the falls.)

Half dome.

El Capitan.


Yosemite Valley meadows.


So here are a lot of general landscape pictures.


This was the night sky at the place we stayed.


Hetch Hetchy area.


Here are a few pictures of the fire damage.  The first ones are from the Hetch Hetchy area, while the last couple are from the Hwy 120 vista overlook.  I can see why this was a fast moving fire.