#yosemite — Public Fediverse posts
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Badger Pass Ski Area, Yosemite National Park
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Badger Pass Ski Area, Yosemite National Park
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Badger Pass Ski Area, Yosemite National Park
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Yosemite High Sierra, Yosemite National Park
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Yosemite High Sierra, Yosemite National Park
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Yosemite High Sierra, Yosemite National Park
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Yosemite High Sierra, Yosemite National Park
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Yosemite High Sierra, Yosemite National Park
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Yosemite High Sierra, Yosemite National Park
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Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park
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Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park
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Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park
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“Tuolumne River, Dusk” — Dusk light on the Tuolumne River and Meadow, Lembert Dome, and the Sierra crest.
Photographing in the morning and evening twilight can be a bit of a crapshoot. The light can be soft yet intensely colorful… or it can simply fade away to gray. Familiarity with the patterns of clouds and light can improve the odds, but you still have to head out there and take advantage of whatever happens. That was my plan on this late-August evening when thin clouds stretched across the sky, presenting the possibility of colorful light.
continue: https://gdanmitchell.com/2026/09/10/tuolumne-river-dusk/
#sierranevada #yosemite #photo #photography #photoOfTheDay #lensCulture #landscapePhotography #photographyLovers #naturePhotography #fineArtPhotography #nature
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“Tuolumne River, Dusk” — Dusk light on the Tuolumne River and Meadow, Lembert Dome, and the Sierra crest.
Photographing in the morning and evening twilight can be a bit of a crapshoot. The light can be soft yet intensely colorful… or it can simply fade away to gray. Familiarity with the patterns of clouds and light can improve the odds, but you still have to head out there and take advantage of whatever happens. That was my plan on this late-August evening when thin clouds stretched across the sky, presenting the possibility of colorful light.
continue: https://gdanmitchell.com/2026/09/10/tuolumne-river-dusk/
#sierranevada #yosemite #photo #photography #photoOfTheDay #lensCulture #landscapePhotography #photographyLovers #naturePhotography #fineArtPhotography #nature
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“Tuolumne River, Dusk” — Dusk light on the Tuolumne River and Meadow, Lembert Dome, and the Sierra crest.
Photographing in the morning and evening twilight can be a bit of a crapshoot. The light can be soft yet intensely colorful… or it can simply fade away to gray. Familiarity with the patterns of clouds and light can improve the odds, but you still have to head out there and take advantage of whatever happens. That was my plan on this late-August evening when thin clouds stretched across the sky, presenting the possibility of colorful light.
continue: https://gdanmitchell.com/2026/09/10/tuolumne-river-dusk/
#sierranevada #yosemite #photo #photography #photoOfTheDay #lensCulture #landscapePhotography #photographyLovers #naturePhotography #fineArtPhotography #nature
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“Tuolumne River, Dusk” — Dusk light on the Tuolumne River and Meadow, Lembert Dome, and the Sierra crest.
Photographing in the morning and evening twilight can be a bit of a crapshoot. The light can be soft yet intensely colorful… or it can simply fade away to gray. Familiarity with the patterns of clouds and light can improve the odds, but you still have to head out there and take advantage of whatever happens. That was my plan on this late-August evening when thin clouds stretched across the sky, presenting the possibility of colorful light.
continue: https://gdanmitchell.com/2026/09/10/tuolumne-river-dusk/
#sierranevada #yosemite #photo #photography #photoOfTheDay #lensCulture #landscapePhotography #photographyLovers #naturePhotography #fineArtPhotography #nature
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“Tuolumne River, Dusk” — Dusk light on the Tuolumne River and Meadow, Lembert Dome, and the Sierra crest.
Photographing in the morning and evening twilight can be a bit of a crapshoot. The light can be soft yet intensely colorful… or it can simply fade away to gray. Familiarity with the patterns of clouds and light can improve the odds, but you still have to head out there and take advantage of whatever happens. That was my plan on this late-August evening when thin clouds stretched across the sky, presenting the possibility of colorful light.
continue: https://gdanmitchell.com/2026/09/10/tuolumne-river-dusk/
#sierranevada #yosemite #photo #photography #photoOfTheDay #lensCulture #landscapePhotography #photographyLovers #naturePhotography #fineArtPhotography #nature
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“Morning Trees” — A small group of pine trees at Tuolumne Meadows in bright morning light.
Previously I have mentioned that certain boulders, hillocks, bends in creeks, and trees in the Sierra are “old friends” of mine that I have visited regularly for decades. These trees are among those friends. It isn’t unusual for me to photograph Tuolumne Meadows in the early morning, and these trees stands at the west end of the meadow, positioned before a panorama of meadow, forest, and peaks…continues: https://gdanmitchell.com/2025/09/12/morning-trees/
#yosemite #nationalpark #sierranevada #tuolumnemeadows #nature #landscape #trees #photography
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“Pine Forest, Evening” — A High Sierra pine forest in soft evening light.
This is an example of what a photographer friend has called “quiet photographs.” There’s no astonishing sunset, no peak piercing the clouds, no spectacular waterfall… just a quiet scene of the sort that characterizes much of our experience in the wild. I love those over-the-top astonishing moments, but I equally love the quiet, still moments and scenes like this one…continues: https://gdanmitchell.com/2025/09/09/pine-forest-evening/
#yosemite #tuolumnemeadows #sierranevada #trees #nature #landscape #photography
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“Trees, Evening Light” — A row of pine trees at the edge of a subalpine meadow catches the last evening light.
Yosemite’s Tuolumne Meadows, in the park’s high country, gets special and quite changeable evening light. The meadow runs roughly east-west, so the setting sun sends its light along the meadow’s length. As the sunset develops, long shadows play across the landscape, interrupted by bits of warm light here and there…continues: https://gdanmitchell.com/2025/08/24/trees-evening-light/
#trees #sunset #yosemite #nationalpark #sierranevada #tuolumnemeadows #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #photography
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“After the Storm, Mt. Gibbs” — Evening light comes to Mt. Gibbs and Tuolumne Meadows as an afternoon storm clears.
I have learned that sometimes the light arrives when you don’t expect it. The day had unexpectedly turned stormy, and to my surprise it rained for hours, continuing past the time when Sierra afternoon thunderstorms typically dissipate. I wondered if it would clear at all, but I headed into the Tuolumne area anyway, thinking that I’d surely want to be there if the light did arrive. And it did! Right around sunset the clouds to the west thinned and beams of light played across the landscape…continues: https://gdanmitchell.com/2025/07/28/after-the-storm-mt-gibbs/
#yosemite #sierranevada #storm #tuolumnemeadows #mountains #nature #landscape #nationalpark #photography
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From #Yosemite to #BearsEars, Erasing #NativeAmericans From #USNationalParks
The foundational myth of America’s National Parks is one of heroic preservation of “pristine wilderness” — but places like Yosemite were already home to thriving communities that cherished the #environment around them.
by Hunter Oatman-Stanford
"Today, the foundational myth of America’s National Parks revolves around the heroic preservation of 'pristine wilderness,' places supposedly devoid of human inhabitants that were saved in an unaltered state for future generations. This is obviously a falsehood: Places like Yosemite were already home to thriving communities that had long cherished—and changed—the environment around them. #GeorgeCatlin’s paintings are vivid reminders that the vast expanses of our western frontier were not empty, but rather brimming with human cultures.
"'#NativeAmericans would later be put on display like animals in a zoo.'
"Though the National Park Service prevented wholesale #industrialization, they still packaged the wilderness for consumption, creating a scenic, pre-historical fantasy surrounded by roads and tourist accommodations, all designed to mask the violence inherent to these parks’ creation. More than a century later, the #UnitedStates has done little to acknowledge the government-led #genocide of #NativePopulations, as well as the continued hardships they face because of the many #BadFaith #treaties enacted by the U.S. government. This story is an elemental part of our National Park system, the great outdoor museum of the American landscape, but the myth continues to outweigh the truth. How did the National Park Service evict Yosemite’s indigenous communities and erase their history, and can it come to terms with this troubling legacy today?
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"Despite the obvious claims of indigenous peoples to their lands, white officials frequently justified their removal by claiming that #NativeAmericans weren’t good stewards of the new American frontier. In its excellent exhibition, 'Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations,' the National Museum of the American Indian points out the myriad ways the United States government repeatedly lied about, altered, and disregarded legal contracts intended to secure native access to the land they already lived on. Beyond this egregious, criminal behavior on the part of U.S. officials, they also relied on written documentation, disadvantaging tribal officials who were accustomed to oral agreements or not fluent in English. Sometimes contracts were even negotiated by individuals that had no power to speak for their larger native community."
#NativeAmericanGenocide #StolenLands #CulturalGenocide #LandBack #NationalParks #BearsEarsMonument
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#VirtualChallenge #Yosemite.
That was the last of the USA national park challenges for me. And also the only park I've actually been to once. Just a daytrip from San Francisco. So I haven't seen much of it. I love the medal (of course, since it's made like a camera ;-) ). Not only the front, but also the back. Next: the city trips. :-) #TheConqueror -
#VirtualChallenge #Yosemite.
That was the last of the USA national park challenges for me. And also the only park I've actually been to once. Just a daytrip from San Francisco. So I haven't seen much of it. I love the medal (of course, since it's made like a camera ;-) ). Not only the front, but also the back. Next: the city trips. :-) #TheConqueror -
#VirtualChallenge #Yosemite.
That was the last of the USA national park challenges for me. And also the only park I've actually been to once. Just a daytrip from San Francisco. So I haven't seen much of it. I love the medal (of course, since it's made like a camera ;-) ). Not only the front, but also the back. Next: the city trips. :-) #TheConqueror -
"Lenticular Cloud and Ridge"
Over the years I've seen some great lenticular and wave clouds over the Sierra, but this example above the Sierra crest in Yosemite was one of the most spectacular.
#yosemite #nationalparks #sierranevada #tuolumneMeadows #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #naturephotography #photography #clouds