Nature Photography

Firefall At Yosemite, An Enduring Fantastic Natural Beauty

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Day after day, it seems, we find something that shocks us–something we did not know that, had we known it, we might have dropped everything to go and see. This February is coming to a close, so we will have to wait until 2017 to check this out in person, but for now thanks to the Science section of the New York Times for bringing it to our attention:

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Instagram was filled with thousands of versions of the firefall. These are a few that photographers shared with us. Clockwise, from top left: Vincent James, @vjamesphoto; Andrew McDonald/High Sierra Workshops; Carlos Loya, @t3nthirty1; Jeff Lui, @jeffreyplui; Bethany Gediman, National Park Service; @xbirdo; Nicki Frates, @nickif24, @theoutdooradventurer; Wayne Nguyen, @potatounit; Vincent James, @vjamesphoto; Gregory Woodman, @gregorywoodman

At Yosemite, a Waterfall Turns Into a Firefall

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By TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG

For a few weeks in February if the conditions are just right, for about 10 minutes around sunset, one waterfall in Yosemite National Park looks more like its opposite — a firefall. Continue reading →

Capturing The Sense Of A Place

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“The Fishing Hole,” 2015. PHOTOGRAPH © AARON BLUM

The Photo Booth feature on the New Yorker‘s ever expanding online offering is a reminder to us of Milo’s camera, in hibernation while he settles into the homestead in the rolling hills of Central New York. We hope that hibernation ends soon, but meanwhile:

Another Side of Appalachia

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Appalachia is not a corner of the United States that cameras come to fresh. Artist-visitors have been making visual shorthand of the rural region for decades, and they have tended to seek the place’s more derisive scenes: the folded flesh of the obese, the writhing snakes of the Pentecostals, the scabbed injections of addicts. These subjects are there for the finding, but the photographer who focusses only on the sordid or the sensational has an outsider’s narrowness of vision. Harder to capture, and far more revealing, are the mysteries of Appalachia as they appear to Appalachians. Continue reading →