My Black Friday Adventure in Yosemite

I thought I’d have my own “Black Friday” this year. Since my wife was off and the kids didn’t have school, I was able to get the van and head to Yosemite. I got up at 3am so I could get up to Yosemite for sunrise. I had only two locations I wanted to shoot; sunrise at Valley View and sunset by the river overlooking Half Dome. The rest of the day I just “winged it”.

I got there at first light at Valley View. There was a cool cloud hovering by El Capitan and hoped it would last at sunrise. When the sun rose, the cloud lit up for a minute and captured this.

I’ll post more images as I get time to process them.

A Spacecraft Landing by El Capitan

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Mike is a Central Valley California landscape and nature photographer whose subjects include scenes from Merced County, Yosemite, SeKi, and the eastern Sierra. He is currently living in Atwater, CA.

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