A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words – Yosemite NP

If there were ever a reason to visit California Yosemite National Park is it. There aren’t enough adjectives in the English language to describe Yosemite. Some of you don’t need me to tell how magnificent this park is but for those of you that have never been to this park I will attempt to describe it to through my words and pictures. As the old saying goes “A picture is worth a thousand words”. Well I will put my description into a few words here and about 40,000 words on my image gallery. For those of who don’t know, my image gallery is KeithGarrettPhotos.com.

You don’t have to go very far into Yosemite National Park before you see that Yosemite might be the most beautiful park that you can imagine. It is amazing that President Lincoln had the foresight to follow his adviser’s advice to set aside this piece of land and protect it in June 1864. This park is so diverse. It contains giant Sequoias, gigantic granite outgrowths in Half Dome and El Capitan, clean and serene meadows and a slow flowing river in Yosemite Valley. There are major waterfalls.

Yosemite Falls is 2,425 feet high and right now is flowing very heavily due to the large amount of snow from this winter that is now melting. There are 21 waterfalls in the park. I stood below Yosemite Falls staring at the powerful flowing from the top of a giant granite rock and I was surrounded by a beautiful peaceful meadow with a slow flowing river running through it. I guess you could call it majestic. As usual I had my camera with me and tried to capture everything, I could see but that is impossible. The shots that I did capture were with my Nikon D4 and again using my Nikon 28-300mm lens. There was a lot of challenges getting them. I kept having to change some of my settings to adjust for all the different lighting. The differences between the water, light and dark colored granite and the green of the trees and meadows kept me jumping. My shutter speed kept changing everywhere from 1/640 sec to 1/2000 sec. For some of the flowing water over the rocks I set the shutter speed to 1/20 sec and the f-stop to f/25. Then I had to brace myself solidly against a tree. I’m sure that there will be more spectacular views over the next week.