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Re: [OM] Oops - Back from Yosemite - Competing with National Geographic?

Subject: Re: [OM] Oops - Back from Yosemite - Competing with National Geographic? [was Off to Yosemite]
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 21:21:17 -0700
On 5/8/2011 5:20 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Also very nice.

Ah, thanks!

> I was a bit surprised to see the water blur at 1/2000 second but it was done 
> with a long focal length and perhaps couldn't look like anything else even if 
> all motion was frozen.

I just posted a broader view. 
<http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=California/Yosemite/Yosemite_2011/Yosemite_Valley&image=_MG_0325cria70.jpg>

In the spring of wet years, Yosemite Valley has many ephemeral, unnamed 
waterfalls and seeps. This is what you might 
call the Eastern 'shoulder' of El Capitan, so it's about 3,000' above the 
floor. A small stream runs down an almost 
vertical face, then goes into free fall.

When, as here, the wind catches it, it becomes largely mist that blows and 
swirls around. Some parts of it are such a 
mix of different drop sizes, moving in different directions, that I think it 
looks like that even with motion stopped. 
At this time, I don't think any of it was reaching the ground directly below at 
all.

Of course I ran off into the woods looking for a clear shot without the tripod. 
But the light still hadn't failed by the 
time I took some stills and returned for the tripod. So I have one shaky, 
hand-held video and a couple of solid ones. 
They really show the movement with the wind.

Moose
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