Right after shooting the sunset, this happened. Yosemite is a magical land of magic.
California
I'm in the middle of a week-long road trip from San Diego, through Yosemite (from East to West), and today we drove down the PCH from San Francisco (hanging out with my little brother who just moved there) to Santa Barbara. This is the first chance I've had to process and view a few photos from the trip. File this one under "Are you freaking kidding me?"
Half Dome at Sunset. July 4th, 2011.
Ferns
Here's another photograph from the REI class last week. What do you think?
A pond of lilies.
Yesterday I taught an outdoor photography class for REI at Rocky Woods. The weather was great and I was able to capture this image of lilies. I saw the image in my mind but after trying a few different perspectives and compositions I gave up. It wasn't working the way I wanted and I moved onto a different shot, but I was inspired to try again after seeing one of my students try a certain angle.
One best things about teaching is that I get to watch students get inspired and get psyched on discovering new things. Sometimes, that turns into me learning something new about myself or my photography as a result.
I'm happy with the way it turned out. I shot it with my Canon G11 point and shoot camera. The quality is excellent on this camera and I'm especially glad it has a pivot screen. For this shot I held it at arm's length and pointed the camera straight down to see the incident angle of the sun, but I wouldn't have been able to compose the image without a pivot screen. What do you think?
