Mother Nature's Photo Gallery

[Bowwowmeow]

Morning rainbow at Lower Yosemite Falls:

[Gliondrach]

That's a beautiful picture.

[Bowwowmeow]

Thank you.

Lower Yosemite Falls is one of the most thrilling places in the park, when it is at peak flow in the spring, and one of the easiest walks in the park too! While I was sitting out of the spray, which is like being in a shower on full blast, a crowd of tourists came up an even easier paved walk than I used, and some of the ladies were in high heel mules.

In contrast, the hike from the valley floor at the base of the falls to the top is supposedly one of the parks most grueling hikes.

[Bowwowmeow]

I used my new mirror lens to photograph the moon, a few days before it was full last week.

[Gliondrach]

I'd never heard of a mirror lens before. I suppose they let the camera use more of the light that comes through the lens.

Good picture. I like the moon.

[Bowwowmeow]

Thank you.

A mirror lens operates on the same principle as a telescope I believe, but doesn't have the length of a true telephoto lens.

Has anyone ever seen a horizontal rainbow going straight across the sky? I never have. I saw this above the copper-clad roof of the grocery store I used to work at. I just happened to have my camera with me.

[Gliondrach]

Never seen one before. If it is a rainbow, it's curving the wrong way. Could it be some sort of iridescence?

I've just checked in my Collin's Weather Guide. They have a picture of a halo with red on the inside. But it is very circular. And not many other colours visible. And a circumzenithal arc - but it has red on the bottom.

Very strange.

[nagev]

Huh. I've seen different curvatures on rainbows, but none quite like that. It's neat.

[Bowwowmeow]

A shot of last night's crescent moon:

[Gliondrach]

Very nice. But where are the meteors?

[Bowwowmeow]

I'd like to try to photograph meteors sometime. I think I would need a wide angle lens though, and use a timed exposure, since you have no idea where in the night sky you might see one, and they are over so quickly.

I may experiment with just taking some photos of the night sky, meteors or not. My cable release wasn't working properly the other night, which can spoil photos taken with a slow shutter speed, as any movement of the camera, such as caused when depressing the exposure button, will make the image blurry.