Lombard Street - San Francisco, CA

I'm expanding this blog to include more than just our National Park adventures.  San Francisco was part of our trip to Yosemite so it's fitting that I include some of those pictures as well.

Each night in San Francisco, Ashlyn and I walked up to Lombard street to experiment with some long exposure photography.  Allie joined us the last night as well.

The image above was exposed for a minute at f/14.  I don't remember how many cars drove down Lombard during that minute - but it was at least 3-4.  You can also tell by the varying levels of the lights that different size cars drove by.  This was my favorite image from our experiment.

Had to include a daytime view of Lombard as well.  I drove down this in our rented suburban - not as hard as you would imagine.  

Since I was experimenting with the long exposures, I figured I had to include a trolley car.  The image below was exposed for 10 seconds at f/14 as a trolley car drove past.

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Yosemite Valley

As we packed up the car and got ready to leave Yosemite, I took a few moments to capture some last images of Yosemite Falls.  This was the first day we had any cloud cover at all over the falls.

This image was actually the view from the parking lot of the Yosemite Lodge.  I liked the way the trees framed the Upper Yosemite Falls.

Saturday was the most crowded day in the park.  Honestly I was a little glad we were leaving this day and not staying for the weekend.  There was no parking in the village so I dropped every one off at the store before we left.  While I was waiting on them, I found a spot to park on the street and took these images of Half Dome from the bridge.

Yosemite was an amazing National Park.  Put this on your bucket list!