On 11/26/2014 2:29 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
Continuing the Moose-Schnozz love-fest here...
Eeeeeek!!
That said, it does irk the snot out of me to be where 200 other
photographers are at.
Wasn't it your choice? :-) And, as above, there's pretty much always
something else to shoot that they aren't.
The app/google/signposts/lookouts are very good for "getting in the
neighborhood". Frankly, the same could be said about our National
Parks as a whole. So, we have "tunnel view" or whatever the spot is
that you stood at to get the famous Yosemite Valley picture.
Yeah, I said it wrong.
How is it
that you knew that there would be good pictures there? Not only is
there a turnout, but every guidebook, tourist and person around the
world knows where that spot is at. Including you.
It is a natural spot. If there weren't a parking area, the road would be clogged. You come out of the tunnel and BANG,
there's a stupendous view.
So, why did you stop? Was it just an opportunity to stretch your legs?
Doubtful. You stopped because you knew that there were photographic
opportunities there. And that knowledge came second-hand. You did not
DISCOVER it. (Or maybe you did because you lived under a rock).
Actually, as often as not, I went there on purpose. And I don't know when I learned of it. Visiting Yosemite was simply
a part of life in our family from long before I was born. For years, our camp stove was an ancient thing from my
grandparents, with a big ding in the top "from a tree falling on it in Yosemite", as the family story went.
What you then did was exactly what I do. You captured the "money shot"
that Ansel Adams told us to get
Actually, nobody gets that shot from that spot in the same way any more. Some large trees have grown up that block part
of the view. PS, an older shot or a good climb are the only solutions.
, and then turned around, moved off the
sidewalk and used your Mark I Eyeballs to see something different. Of
the BILLIONS of photographs taken at that location, It is probably
pretty safe to say that there are at least 200,000 others just like
yours. But these are yours.
And the others aren't in my view. ;-) Maybe it's time to dig out some other,
even more obscure, shots from there? :-)
Elevated Moose
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