State Route 1 & Julia Pfeiffer Burns SP - Monterey County, CA

On 1st June 2024, my parents and I went for a drive along State Route 1 in Monterey County, CA. We visited Hurricane Point Vista Point, Seal Beach Overlook, and Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park. I hope you enjoy viewing my photos!

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Since we were traveling really far south on State Route 1 this day, we didn't stop at any places before Bixby Creek Bridge. Our first stop was Hurricane Point Vista Point.

A scenery photo of Bixby Creek Bridge, mountains, clouds, and the Pacific Ocean. The photo was shot at Hurricane Point Vista Point next to State Route 1 in Monterey County, CA.

Approximate GPS location (type into Google): 36° 21' 28" N 121° 54' 09" W

A black and white process of the photo above.

A scenery photo of clouds, mountains, Pacific Ocean, and Pride of Madeira Flowers (Echium candicans) (bottom left). The photo was shot at Seal Beach Overlook in Monterey County, CA.

Approximate GPS location (type into Google): 36° 12' 05" N 121° 43' 42" W

A black and white process of the photo above.

Next, we arrive at Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park in Monterey County, CA.

A scenery photo of clouds, mountains, and Pacific Ocean. The photo was shot at a turn out on the side of State Route 1 in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park in Monterey County, CA.

Approximate GPS location (type into Google): 36° 10' 24" N 121° 32' 00" W

A scenery photo of clouds, mountains, trees, and Pacific Ocean. The photo was shot at Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park Vista Point on the side of State Route 1 in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park in Monterey County, CA.

Approximate GPS location (type into Google): 36° 10' 10" N 121° 41' 05" W

Next we arrive at McWay Falls in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park. The GPS coordinates for the photos taken there is at 36° 09' 34" N 121° 40' 18" W.

A scenery photo of McWay Falls, McWay Beach, McWay Cove, and Pacific Ocean. The photo was shot on Waterfall Overlook Trail in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park in Monterey County, CA.

A black and white process of the photo above.

A scenery photo of McWay Falls, McWay Beach, McWay Cove, and Pacific Ocean. The photo was shot on Waterfall Overlook Trail in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park in Monterey County, CA.

A long exposure scenery photo of McWay Falls, McWay Beach, McWay Cove, and Pacific Ocean. The long exposure effect was achieved using an ND filter. The photo was shot on Waterfall Overlook Trail in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park in Monterey County, CA.

A black and white process of the photo above.

A long exposure scenery photo of McWay Falls, McWay Beach, McWay Cove, and Pacific Ocean. The long exposure effect was achieved using an ND filter. The photo was shot on Waterfall Overlook Trail in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park in Monterey County, CA.

A long exposure scenery photo of McWay Falls, McWay Beach, McWay Cove, and Pacific Ocean. The long exposure effect was achieved using an ND filter. The photo was shot on Waterfall Overlook Trail in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park in Monterey County, CA.

A scenery photo of McWay Falls, McWay Beach, McWay Cove, and Pacific Ocean. The photo was shot on Waterfall Overlook Trail in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park in Monterey County, CA.

Next we started our drive home.

A scenery photo of Bixby Creek Bridge, mountains, clouds, and the Pacific Ocean. The photo was shot at Hurricane Point Vista Point next to State Route 1 in Monterey County, CA.

Approximate GPS location (type into Google): 36° 21' 27" N 121° 54' 10" W

A black and white process of the photo above.

This is all the photos for today. I hope you have enjoyed viewing the photos! 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 Instagram. These links can also be found on the top of the right sidebar.

Stanislaus/Humboldt-Toiyabe NF (Cellphone Photos) - California

On 2 July 2023, my parents and I drove along State Route 108 in Stanislaus National Forest and Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in California. I took photos with my cellphones and mirrorless camera. The photos are split into 2 blog posts. I also took 2 videos on my phones as well of the creek (which is extremely fast this year due to the extra heavy snowfall), which can be viewed here. I hope you enjoy viewing my photos!

Parts: Cellphone Photos | Olympus Photos

These photos were shot on my cellphone.

A scenery photo of snow covered mountains, forest, and clouds. The photo was shot at a vista point on the side of State Route 108 in Stanislaus National Forest.

A photo of a small waterfall (part of Deadman Creek), and forest. The photo is shot on the side of State Route 108 in Stanislaus National Forest.

A photo of Deadman Creek, snow covered mountains, forest, and clouds. The photo is shot on the side of State Route 108 in Stanislaus National Forest.

A scenery photo of snow, snow covered mountains, forest, clouds, and State Route 108 (left). The photo was shot in Stanislaus National Forest.

A scenery photo of snow, mountains, forest, clouds, and State Route 108 (right). The photo was shot in Stanislaus National Forest.

A scenery photo of Sonora Pass, signs, State Route 108, snow covered mountains, forest, clouds, and Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. The photo was shot in Stanislaus National Forest.

A scenery photo of snow covered mountains, forest, clouds, and State Route 108. The photo was shot on Pacific Crest Trail near Sonora Pass in Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.

I took a selfie at Sonora Pass. Here is the sign for Sonora Pass. The photo was shot in Stanislaus National Forest.

A scenery photo of Mt. Emma, West Walker River, Leavitt Creek (left), clouds, and forest. The photo was shot at Leavitt Falls Vista Point in Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.

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Lower Yosemite Fall - Yosemite National Park (Part 13)

Yosemite National Park is a national park located in California that stretches eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in the central eastern portion of California and covers around 761,268 acres or 3,080.74 km² of land. Yosemite National Park is best known for its waterfalls, deep valleys, grand meadows, giant sequoias, giant wilderness area, and much more. I, personally, love Yosemite National Park. I think it is very beautiful and is a great place for photographs. I also happen to live in the SF Bay Area which isn't very far from it! I try to make at least 1 trip almost every year to the park. I visited the park several month ago and I am here to show you some of the photos I took in the park as well as some photos I took on the way into the park from the SF Bay Area. These photos will be divided over several blog posts. I hope you enjoy viewing the photos! Also, I have route information recorded using a Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver. If you are planning a similar trip to Yosemite National Park and would like to see the route I took, feel free to email me at the email address I provided on my "About the Photographer" page for a copy. I can provide you the route information in Google Earth KMZ, Canon NMEA, and GPX formats. If you would like to get notifications when I do post, you can Like/Follow me on the following fan pages: Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.

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Now let's introduce you to the photos for today. The photos for today was from the 2nd day of my trip. As I have stated in the previous post, after those Cook's Meadow photos, it was getting late, so I rushed over to the trail leading to Lower Yosemite Fall. Due to the lateness and the high contrasts during that time of the day, there are quite some highlight blow outs in the photos. I also have a night shot for this blog post. I hope you enjoy.

HDR composition of a close up of the bark of a Red Fir (Abies magnifica). Took this photo near the trail head leading up to Lower Yosemite Fall.

I thought the tree bark pattern would make a great black and white, so I processed the same HDR in black and white. 

Since it was late, there was not as much light out. I managed to do a long exposure without any filters. Since the blurs on the waterfall was similar, I managed to successfully do an HDR composition. 

A regular long exposure shot of Lower Yosemite Fall. 

I thought the same photo made a great black and white so here is a black and white process of the shot. 

The river Yosemite Falls creates. I shot this on the bridge above the river.

Same photo processed in black and white.  

View of mountains from the view point of Lower Yosemite Fall. As you can see there is a really strong color cast due to the time of the day this was taken at. I tried my best to remove the color cast. 

I ended up also doing a black and white process to remove all color cast on the image. 

A long exposure on the bridge facing Lower Yosemite Fall. As you can see there were a few other photographers and tourists on the left. While I usually don't like tourists in my photos, one of them was a savior. He happened to be wearing a white hat, which I was able to white balance off of. :) Remember that color cast from the time of the day I shot this at?

Another long exposure of Lower Yosemite fall from the bridge. Another photographer was also doing a long exposure on the left. I did my best to color balance this one, but the cast was just too much to fix. 

By the time I headed down from Yosemite Falls, it was pitch dark. I always bring flashlights in my camera bag. Never know when you'll need it. I actually did 2 long exposures on the way down, but the other one didn't turn out very well (severely underexposed). This was the one that turned out well. I shot this outside of the bathroom at the trail head (because my dad needed to go). 

Thought a black and white process would be pretty nice too. 

These are all the photos for today and from my 2nd day. I hope you have enjoyed viewing them. Next time I will have photos from the 3rd day of my trip from Swinging Bridge in Yosemite National Park. Please don't forget to share my blog posts with your friends! If you would like to get notifications next time I post, you can "Like" me on Facebook or follow me on Twitter and Google+. These links can also be found on the top of the right sidebar.

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A trip to Yellowstone/Grand Teton National Park (Part 15)

Hello! This is the pictures of my trip to Yellowstone/Grand Teton National Park. Not all pictures are of the inside of Yellowstone/Grand Teton National Park. I visited Idaho Falls, Mormon Church in Salt Lake City, and some other places along the way. :) So please enjoy!

你好！这就开始我的黄石公园照片了。不是每个照片是黄石公园的。我还去了很多路上的地方。请欣赏。

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Today I have pictures of Yellowstone scenery, river, and waterfall. The name of the waterfall is Tower Fall.

今天我又黄石公园景色，河，和瀑布的照片。瀑布的名字是塔瀑布。

If you have noticed the pictures of the waterfall and the rivers is pretty much circling around one waterfall. If you didn't, well it is the same waterfall and rivers. It is just taken at different angles. All the view points is circling around it.

上几次的河和瀑布都是同一个瀑布。这些景点都是围着这一个瀑布在转。

Yellowstone Scenery

黄石公园景色

River leading up to the waterfall.

View from the top of the waterfall.

上面往下看。

The river the waterfall creates.

瀑布形成的河。

 View from the top of the waterfall.

上面往下看。

Tower Fall

塔瀑布

Next time I will be posting up more pictures of the waterfall (from Uncle Tom's Trail).
我下一次会放更多的瀑布照片 （汤姆叔叔的步道）。

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