California Splendor
Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2016 9:38 pm
Yosemite National Park
It is one of the most amazing places. Too bad, though, no one goes there anymore -- it's too crowded.
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Re: California Splendor
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 2:44 am
Re: California Splendor
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 2:34 pm
I didn't know Thomas Kincaid touched up photographs
Re: California Splendor
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 4:33 pm
Either no 0one goes there, or it's too crowded. Not both.Long Run wrote:It is one of the most amazing places. Too bad, though, no one goes there anymore -- it's too crowded
Or did you mean "no one who counts goes there"?
Re: California Splendor
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 4:53 pm
Read the fine print
Re: California Splendor
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 2:22 am
MajGenl.Meade wrote:I didn't know Thomas Kincaid touched up photographs
No, but God does.
Re: California Splendor
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 3:04 am
That image is heavily HDR rendered.
Re: California Splendor
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 4:58 pm
What does that mean?
I'm strictly old school, non digital, film, zone system, photographer.
I'm strictly old school, non digital, film, zone system, photographer.
Re: California Splendor
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 6:13 pm
This photograph is not that.dales wrote:What does that mean?
I'm strictly old school, non digital, film, zone system, photographer.
It is in fact featured in this month's NatGeo magazine, in their series on the 100th Anniversary of the National Park System. The same photographer who took the Yosemite pic, has others in the article.
From the magazine:
Its a pretty photo, but I'm not a huge fan of the technique. I recognize its difficulty and artistry, but it doesn't wow me.For years photographer Stephen Wilkes dreamed of “compressing the best parts of a day and night into a single photograph.” Now, with digital imaging technology, he can create such time-spanning panoramas.
To make the photos seen here, Wilkes selects a vista, sets up his camera and computer gear, and establishes a fixed camera angle. Based on sun directions, moon phases, weather, and more, he chooses an hour to start. He then continuously shoots thousands of images through day and night, in whatever conditions nature gives him. “I have zero control,” he says, “until the end of the process, when I have complete control.”
Wilkes takes weeks to select what he considers “the 50 best moments” from a shoot. He decides on the image’s time vector—where in the frame the day-night cycle will begin, and which way time will proceed: top to bottom, left to right. Then he digitally blends the photos to layer parts of some on parts of others, turning separate “magical moments” into a seamless composite image.
Re: California Splendor
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 7:56 pm
For the record:
2016 is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the National Park Service. It has come to my attention that there are no less than sixteen days in this coming year when admission to your national parks will be free.
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2016 is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the National Park Service. It has come to my attention that there are no less than sixteen days in this coming year when admission to your national parks will be free.
- ● January 18: Martin Luther King Jr. Day
● April 16 through 24: A nine-day stretch celebrating National Park Week
● August 25 through 28: Four days commemorating the actual National Park Service birthday
● September 24: National Public Lands Day
● November 11: Veterans Day
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Re: California Splendor
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 9:47 pm
Your "National (Land of the free) Parks" aren't free? 
Re: California Splendor
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 10:17 pm
No not free, but still pretty much a bargain, especially for seniors and kids:
http://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/fees.htm
http://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/fees.htm
Re: California Splendor
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 10:39 pm
Nagging reminder boy: Nothing's free. For the most popular parks, I'd rather have the users pick up a piece of the cost of the services required to allow the visit. Plus, there are tons of no-fee federal and state public lands that are great places to visit, say, like a wildlife refuge in Malheur County. 
Re: California Splendor
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 10:40 pm
Just spent a fortnight on Dartmoor, no charge for using the National Park
Re: California Splendor
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 10:48 pm
I have to admit though, I would happily pay to visit your National parks.
Re: California Splendor
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 2:52 am
Dartmoor is lovely - buncha rocks, heatherish sort of stuff growing, ponies. No wonder it's free. Yellowstone now - lots of rangers to get paid, tons of animals (bears and bison, Gob - not to mention the ones not mentioned) to keep safe, hotels, restaurants, geysers to keep people from swimming in.... etc. etc. etc. Trails to maintain; hikers to rescue.... etc. etc. Yes, you'd love it - and a lot more than Dartmoor mate, loverly as it is, innit?
Re: California Splendor
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 2:54 am
Now that you've told me that, no!
Re: California Splendor
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 3:02 am
Philistine
Re: California Splendor
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 3:04 am
Phil is fine.
Re: California Splendor
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 2:37 pm
I can't, my 80 year old eyes can't see anything there. Please tell me what it says?Crackpot wrote:Read the fine print