Mercury

I love classic cars and was certainly not thinking about finding one parked a little way away in Yosemite Valley. Beautiful color, and nice touch with the plush dice hanging from the rearview mirror!

Nikon D810, Nikkor 24-70, 70mm, 1/160 sec @ f/10, ISO 400
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6

Trees and reflection

The blue hour had passed but there was still some purplish color in the sky and I wanted a different type of photo for the last one of the day.
During the 3 minutes exposure, I rotated the lens slightly every 10 seconds or so, covering the full focal range of my zoom.

Nikon D800, Nikkor 24-70, 24 to 70mm, 180 sec @ f/4, ISO 800
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5

Pine Trees

Painting with my camera in front of El Capitan.

Nikon D800, Nikkor 70-300, 85mm,1/50  sec @ f/5.6, ISO 200
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5

Fall morning in Camp Curry

 
The sun was playing in the trees above the cabin, where falling leaves had started to softly blanket the roof.

Nikon D200, Nikkor 24-70, 56mm, 1/250 sec @ f/2.8, ISO 320
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3

Plastic & Square: one more winter image

From Yosemite again, here's another example of analog captures with my holga. I really like the square format I can get with the 6x6 mask.
These barren trees where shot in black & white, I just added the split toning in post.

Holga 120N, Ilford Delta 400 Pro
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3

Morning reflections

Of course spring is here and the weather has really started to warm us up, but I still want to remember this winter morning in Yosemite, walking on the Merced river's icy bank right after sunrise.
The water reflects the bare oaks at the bottom of El Capitan. It was so serene.
And so cold!

Nikon D200, Nikkor 70-300, 220mm, 1/250 sec @ f/11, ISO 200
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3

2 for 1

Because digital has somewhat removed the unpredictability and a lot of the surprises of photographic capture, I love to play with film from time to time, even more so with analog toys/tools with which only the unexpected can be expected!
Last winter in Yosemite I brought along my Holga. You need to advance the film manually, which I regularly forget. This is the result of an accidental double exposure. Quite an interesting portrait isn't it?

Holga 120N, Kodak Portra 400VC
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3

Falling Snow

You wait for it, you wait for it, then you click your shutter and move out of the way as fast as you can.
Sometimes not fast enough...

Nikon D200, Nikkor 18-70, 52mm, 1/160 sec @ f/8, +1 EV, ISO 200
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3

Washburn Point

Before these last glorious minutes of sun on Half Dome (here), the scenery was rather dull. So I focused instead on the silhouettes of the pines with their needles like pom-poms dangling from the sky.

Nikon D200, Nikkor 105 macro, 1/1000 sec @ f/4, ISO 200
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3

Boystown

A lesser known landmark of Yosemite's Curry Village.

Casio Exilim EX-S600, 114mm eq, 1/160 sec @ f/5.2
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3

Seeds

I was intrigued by the white fluffy stuff I was seeing in the Yosemite Valley's meadows until I came close and discovered it was the open pods of the Showy Milkweed, full of seeds ready to take off on their journey to a new life.

Nikon D200, Nikkor 70-300, 135mm, 1/1250 sec @ f/8, ISO 560
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3

Half Dome

The last sunset from Glacier Point this year before they closed the road.

Nikon D200, Nikkor 70-300, 174mm, 0.6 sec @ f/22, ISO 100
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3, Nik Viveza 2