Vacationing with Cindy and Ray - Part 2
The second leg of our road trip was a visit to Yosemite National Park. With summer vacations in full swing, there wasn’t a prayer of getting accommodations in the park, but we’d snagged adjoining cabins near the tree line at Evergreen Lodge, about 8 miles or so outside the park. What a delightful find! We’ll definitely return during cooler weather.
Since it was a first visit for both Cindy and Ray, we stayed pretty much on the valley floor, and hiked in to see the big sequoias which was on Ray’s “must see” list. And we enjoyed a thunderstorm, complete with lightning and hail as we sipped Irish coffees on the veranda at the Awahnee Lodge.
We even took a long and bumpy ride with a lodge guide up a fire trail to a clearing with a panoramic view of the valley below and watched the sunset while enjoying wine and cheese. It was during this outing that our guide reformatted Cindy’s camera card!
It was a wonderful vacation, all too short, of course. But we all vowed to return for a longer stay… During spring if I have anything to say about it. I’ve posted 25 images here. Enjoy!
Doug
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These are awesome!! My favorite is the deer! You must have been right next to her. I would love to see some of the other shots of her. I also really like the water lilly. I could hang that on my wall!
Nice work, Doug! I love your cover shot, the one with your wife on the bridge. The deer in also great. Wish I had been there to experience the moment. All excellent.
OMG the photos are all awesome! You should be selling some of these! Do you? Sell them I mean?
Doug, these are even better than the others! We really enjoy seeing your photography. More is better!
Don't worry too much about the loss of resolution and color fidelity when optimizing for the web. It happens. But your composition is very good. The deer is excellent. Was she laying down or just neck deep in the grass? Really nice capture! The lilly and pads shot is very nice too. I've been all over Yosemite and don't ever recall seeing lilly pads. Where exactly was it taken?
Very nice work, especially for shooting from the hip.
Great pictures of Yosemite Valley. The deer is amazing. I take it she would have followed you home and climbed into your lap. It seems wonderful that wild animals can live in an environment filled with people and without fear. May she live in Yosemite all her life and never learn to fear humans.
Wonderful pictures!
Very nice photos. My favorite is the water lilly.
These are some really good photos!