Golden Hour Bokeh
Yosemite National Park
California

After freezing all night in our tent cabin we woke up early to try to grab some great morning light. Willie and Will wanted to take photos of a big tree in an open meadow with Half Dome but I wasn't all that interested so I threw on the macro lens and walked around the meadow. 

I've already posted one shot but I thought I'd post this other perspective of the same little flower guy. I thought there was some nice shape to this plant other than just the dew (which I posted previously). I also loved the bokeh in this shot

Nikon D300s w/Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro:
105mm, f/6.3, 1/25 sec, ISO 400, Tripod
Spikey Thingy Plant
Yosemite National Park
California

After freezing all night in our tent cabin we woke up early to try to grab some great morning light. Willie and Will wanted to take photos of a big tree in an open meadow with Half Dome but I wasn't all that interested so I threw on the macro lens and walked around the meadow. 

While walking around I found this neat little spiky flower thing that had some frost/dew on it (which you can barely tell) and I thought it had some great shape. This photo's kinda boring, kinda simple but also kinda interesting and neat. Not much to say about it but thought i'd share!

Nikon D300s w/Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro:
105mm, f/2.8, 1/160 sec, ISO 400
Butter
Hetch Hetchy Resevoir
Yosemite National Park, CA

Every year I head to Yosemite National Park for my birthday. Last year was a fluke year and it was miserably cold and snowed on us. The weather for our trip this year looked only mildly better but turned out to be absolutely gorgeous. It was warm (perfect hiking weather, not too hot but not cold), sunny, and just wonderful.

On Sunday we slept in a little bit, packed up the campsite, and ventured over to Hetch Hetchy, an 8 mile long man-made reservoir that feeds San Francisco and the Bay Area with clean drinking water. In the early 1900's the O'Shaughnessy Dam was built that turned the gorgeous Hetch Hetchy Valley into a reservoir. Today you can hike along numerous trails on the edges of the reservoir. 

We started the 5 mile round trip hike to Wapama Falls and found this butterfly enjoying a wonderful purple flower. I only had my 17-35mm f/2.8 lens with me and didn't think I could get a decent shot before the butterfly flew away but she decided to stay and hang out for several minutes while I clicked about 60 shots and got nice and close (note that this was shot at 35mm!!!). If only I had my 105mm macro this could have been even awesomer of a shot!

Nikon D300s w/Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8 ED-IF AF-S:
35mm, f/3.5, 1/1250 sec, ISO 320, Handheld
B+W F-Pro Circular Polarizer
Golden Hour Bokeh
Yosemite National Park
California


After freezing all night in our tent cabin we woke up early to try to grab some great morning light. Willie and Will wanted to take photos of a big tree in an open meadow with Half Dome but I wasn't all that interested so I threw on the macro lens and walked around the meadow.

I've already posted one shot but I thought I'd post this other perspective of the same little flower guy. I thought there was some nice shape to this plant other than just the dew (which I posted previously). I also loved the bokeh in this shot

Nikon D300s w/Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro:
105mm, f/6.3, 1/25 sec, ISO 400, Tripod
Golden Hour Bokeh
Yosemite National Park
California


After freezing all night in our tent cabin we woke up early to try to grab some great morning light. Willie and Will wanted to take photos of a big tree in an open meadow with Half Dome but I wasn't all that interested so I threw on the macro lens and walked around the meadow.

I've already posted one shot but I thought I'd post this other perspective of the same little flower guy. I thought there was some nice shape to this plant other than just the dew (which I posted previously). I also loved the bokeh in this shot

Nikon D300s w/Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro:
105mm, f/6.3, 1/25 sec, ISO 400, Tripod
See photo in original gallery.