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Subject: "Shorts, Outtakes and Rants" updates

Author:
Wes

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Date Posted: 20:00:51 11/23/14 Sun

Last fall I posted several photos from my July trip to Oregon and California on PhotoPost. I've reposted them with much more detailed descriptions on California Dreaming.

I've neglected the Shorts, Outtakes and Rants" page recently, but I've reposted several of the columns I've crossposted to the forum over the last couple years. I hope this will make up a little for the dearth of activity there, and will try to do better in the future.

-- Wes

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[> Subject: Re: "Shorts, Outtakes and Rants" updates

Author:
Boyd Percy
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Date Posted: 12:57:53 11/24/14 Mon

>Last fall I posted several photos from my July trip to
>Oregon and California on PhotoPost. I've reposted them
>with much more detailed descriptions on rel=nofollow target=_blank >rel=nofollow target=_blank
>href="http://www.spearfishlaketales.com/shorts/californ
>ia.htm">California Dreaming.
>
>I've neglected the >href="http://www.spearfishlaketales.com/shorts/shorts.h
>tm">Shorts, Outtakes and Rants" page
>recently, but I've reposted several of the columns
>I've crossposted to the forum over the last couple
>years. I hope this will make up a little for the
>dearth of activity there, and will try to do better in
>the future.
>
>-- Wes

I'm glad you put your columns with Shorts. It makes easier to find and read them instead of having to wade through the Forum.

[> Subject: Re: "Shorts, Outtakes and Rants" updates

Author:
Seth
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Date Posted: 21:10:45 12/01/14 Mon

If/when you get back to Yosemite Valley, we've found the best way to see the Valley is from bicycle. They rent them at Curry Village. There are several trails/service roads that you can ride that get you away from the cars and slow down to take in the scenery.

Photographing Yosemite it is hard not to think of Ansel Adams work. You mention him waiting out the light for the perfect shot, the below link is to a set of images that he shot when he was on a deadline and in later comments was not happy with the quality of the light due to hazy weather. They were shot in 1940 for Fortune magazine and now in the LA Public Library collection.

http://www.drkrm.com/ansel_adams.html

[> [> Subject: Re: "Shorts, Outtakes and Rants" updates

Author:
Skip
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Date Posted: 08:00:19 12/02/14 Tue

>If/when you get back to Yosemite Valley, we've found
>the best way to see the Valley is from bicycle. They
>rent them at Curry Village. There are several
>trails/service roads that you can ride that get you
>away from the cars and slow down to take in the
>scenery.
>
>Photographing Yosemite it is hard not to think of
>Ansel Adams work. You mention him waiting out the
>light for the perfect shot, the below link is to a set
>of images that he shot when he was on a deadline and
>in later comments was not happy with the quality of
>the light due to hazy weather. They were shot in 1940
>for Fortune magazine and now in the LA Public Library
>collection.
>
> >href="http://www.drkrm.com/ansel_adams.html">http://www
>.drkrm.com/ansel_adams.html

Lick Observatory was one of the laser sites that were used to bounce a beam off a reflector to measure the distance from earth to moon