Generals Highway - SR-198 (Part 3) - Sequoia & King's Canyon NP (2014)

I recently took a trip to Sequoia and King's Canyon National Park (the two parks are connected). I had a great time photographing many scenery and enjoying the beauty of nature both inside the two national parks and out in Sequoia National Forest. Through this chain of blog posts, I will be showing photos of natural scenery, mountains, meadows, forests, wildlife, and the wonderful trees of the parks. I will also be giving some travel advice into the park as I know some of you viewers are probably looking at this to try to plan a trip to the parks. In these parks, is one of the world's largest species of trees, the Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum). I will also have a few photos of the world's most massive tree the General Sherman Tree in blog posts to come. I hope you enjoy viewing this chain of blog posts!

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Today I begin my photos from day two. These photos were shot on Generals Highway (SR-198), the main highway through Sequoia National Park. A few photos will be from Three Rivers, CA. Most of the photos for today were shot on the side of the highway where I thought the scenery was nice.

First photo was shot near the hotel I stayed at overnight. This is a sunrise shot of the Kaweah River shot from the Pumpkin Hollow Bridge (built in 1922) in Three Rivers, CA. You can see from the photo California is experiencing quite a bit of drought! The water level was very low in the river. 

Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 36 28 45 N 118 50 22 W 

Here is a photo of the Kaweah River shot on the other side of that bridge. As you can see, the water level is also very low in this shot. 

Black and white process of the photo above.  

 I enter Sequoia National Park. Below is the Kaweah River which is mostly dried up. 

Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 36 29 20 N 118 50 07 W 

A scenery shot from the side of the highway with Kaweah River at the bottom of the shot. 

Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 36 29 20 N 118 50 08 W 

A photo of Generals Highway (SR-198).

Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 36 29 52 N 118 49 11 W 

A scenery photo of the Kaweah River. 

Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 36 29 52 N 118 49 13 W 

Black and white process of the photo above. 

Another photo of Kaweah River and Generals Highway (SR-198).

Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 36 30 02 N 118 48 53 W 

Here is a photo of Tunnel Rock which is right on the side of the highway. 

Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 36 30 07 N 118 48 44 W 

Another shot of Tunnel Rock. 

Scenery in the park.

Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 36 30 51 N 118 47 41 W 

Scenery photo with Kaweah River on the bottom. After this shot, the road goes up the mountain, and I didn't see the river anymore. 

Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 36 30 53 N 118 47 21 W 

Another photo of Generals Highway (SR-198).

Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 36 30 53 N 118 47 20 W 

Saw some pretty flowers on the side of the highway. Decided to take a few photos. There was a slight breeze blowing so it was pretty hard taking photos of these flowers! Most of my shots ended up having motion blur. You probably wondering why I didn't just hold it with my hands. I tried that before, but my hands tend to shake making the subject move more than wind would. HAHA

Saw a bee land on a flower. Decided to get a photo of that too. 

A scenery shot near Hospital Rock. The road through this shot is Generals Highway (SR-198). 

Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 36 31 15 N 118 46 18 W 

A scenery shot in the park. 

Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 36 32 00 N 118 46 24 W 

Black and white process of the photo above. 

These are all the photos for today. Next time I continue with more photos from Sequoia National Park. Please don't forget to share the blog post with your friends and family members! Also, if you want to get notifications when I post up more photos, "Like" us on Facebook or follow me on Twitter and Instagram. These links can also be found on the top of the right sidebar.

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Mineral King Road (Part 2) - Sequoia & King's Canyon NP (2014)

I recently took a trip to Sequoia and King's Canyon National Park (the two parks are connected). I had a great time photographing many scenery and enjoying the beauty of nature both inside the two national parks and out in Sequoia National Forest. Through this chain of blog posts, I will be showing photos of natural scenery, mountains, meadows, forests, wildlife, and the wonderful trees of the parks. I will also be giving some travel advice into the park as I know some of you viewers are probably looking at this to try to plan a trip to the parks. In these parks, is one of the world's largest species of trees, the Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum). I will also have a few photos of the world's most massive tree the General Sherman Tree in blog posts to come. I hope you enjoy viewing this chain of blog posts!

Full Resolution Photos and Prints: If you want to see full resolution photos or buy prints of any of the photos you see, they are up on my portfolio for viewing. To view my best photos from this trip, use this link. To see all of my photos from this trip, use this link.

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Today I have the rest of my photos from day one. These photos were shot on Mineral King Road. Photos will be from Three Rivers, CA and a few shots in a section of Sequoia National Park that most tourists don't visit. I will have scenery photos of mountains, the forest, and one sunset shot. 

Here is a photo of a mountain in Three Rivers, CA. 

 Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 36 28 18 N 118 50 43 W 

Black and white process of the photo above.  

Next I arrive at Kaweah River Bridge. This photo was shot on the bridge and below is what I assume to be the Kaweah River. 

  Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 36 26 57 N 118 47 35 W 

A photo of the Kaweah River Bridge. 

 Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 36 26 58 N 118 47 37 W  

 Here is a sign for the bridge. Says it is built in 1923. 

Photography Tip: I find writing down place names on vacations a bit of a hassle, so my tip to you is, if you like to know where you shot photos, see if there is a sign or something in the vicinity and shoot a photo of it!

I thought this rock face looked very cool so I got a photo of it. The clouds looked pretty nice that day too.  

 Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 36 26 34 N 118 46 09 W  

Black and white process of the photo above.   

Still on Mineral King Drive, now I have entered into Sequoia National Park. 

 Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 36 25 49 N 118 45 14 W 

 Scenery shot from the same spot as above. 

Photos of the mountain. 

Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 36 26 40 N 118 42 34 W  

A photo of the thick dense forest in Sequoia National Park. 

Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 36 27 53 N 118 40 36 W  

A photo shot of the forest and the one-lane road of Mineral King Road. 

Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 36 27 54 N 118 40 36 W  

Another shot of the forest. 

Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 36 27 54 N 118 40 35 W  

There wasn't that much to see so I headed back. Here is a sunset shot out on Mineral King Road but back in Three Rivers, CA. This is the last photo I shot that day. 

Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 36 27 08 N 118 48 34 W

These are all the photos for today. Next time I have photos from the next day where I continue into Sequoia National Park. Please don't forget to share the blog post with your friends and family members! Also, if you want to get notifications when I post up more photos, "Like" us on Facebook or follow me on Twitter and Instagram. These links can also be found on the top of the right sidebar.

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On The Road (Part 1) - Sequoia & King's Canyon NP (2014)

I recently took a trip to Sequoia and King's Canyon National Park (the two parks are connected). I had a great time photographing many scenery and enjoying the beauty of nature both inside the two national parks and out in Sequoia National Forest. Through this chain of blog posts, I will be showing photos of natural scenery, mountains, meadows, forests, wildlife, and the wonderful trees of the parks. I will also be giving some travel advice into the park as I know some of you viewers are probably looking at this to try to plan a trip to the parks. In these parks, is one of the world's largest species of trees, the Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum). I will also have a few photos of the world's most massive tree the General Sherman Tree in blog posts to come. I hope you enjoy viewing this chain of blog posts!

Full Resolution Photos and Prints: If you want to see full resolution photos or buy prints of any of the photos you see, they are up on my portfolio for viewing. To view my best photos from this trip, use this link. To see all of my photos from this trip, use this link.

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Today I show you photos from day one. These photos will include some shots on my drive to the park, and some photos from Three Rivers, CA (as that is where I stayed for the night). I have photos of farms, Lake Kaweah, one photo from inside Sequoia National Park, and cacti. 

First photo is shot on SR-245 in Exeter, CA. I thought the long highway looked very nice with farm fields on both sides. 

 Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 36 21 31 N 119 06 45 W  

A black and white process of the photo above.  

 This next shot was shot in Woodlake, CA. I thought the rock formations on the mountain side looked very nice. I would have crossed the highway to frame the highway out of the photo, but those trees in the field were too high for me to do that. I also thought the rural house and barn in the distance looked very nice. 

Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 36 24 42 N 119 03 47 W

These next few photos were shot at approximately the same location is of Lake Kaweah in Lemon Cove, CA. 

Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 36 24 26 N 118 59 47 W  

Another photo of Lake Kaweah. 

 If you take a close look, you can see that California is in serious drought right now. You can see where the water level used to be, and on the far left, you can see the orange floating thing that they keep in lakes, but now half of the devices is on dry land. The dry lake also seems to have turned an island on the far shoreline into a peninsula.

Here is a photo inside Sequoia National Park at a turnout on Generals Highway (SR-198). I then headed back out to Three Rivers, CA because my parents wanted to check out a less traveled area of the park (Mineral King Road). The view on that road was okay. 

Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 36 29 53 N 118 49 09 W

So back out of the park in Three Rivers, CA, as I drove up Mineral King Road, saw a lot of species of cacti planted outside a home. I decided to stop for some photos as they were pretty. 

 Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 36 28 15 N 118 51 25 W

Another cactus photo.

More photos of the cacti. 

These are all the photos for today. Next time I have more photos from Mineral King Road, the rest of my photos from day 1. Please don't forget to share the blog post with your friends and family members! Also, if you want to get notifications when I post up more photos, "Like" us on Facebook or follow me on Twitter and Instagram. These links can also be found on the top of the right sidebar.

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