Yosemite Pictures - Photography from Yosemite National Park, El Capitan, Half Dome, etc.

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Yosemite Valley,
from the Wawona Tunnel View

El Capitan - the rock climber's delight!

Yosemite National Park Photography

I seem to be a bottomless pit of Yosemite photographs! El Capitan, Half Dome, Merced River - Tuolumne Meadows - I keep on coming back for more pictures! I grew up visiting Yosemite, and I just never tire it its beauty. I am what you might call a "chronic visitor" - I have to visit every year. I'm not alone!

I have returned from my annual Yosemite pilgrimage, so there are even more pictures to put up on this site. They are just waiting to be edited with Photoshop (and watermarked). I am constantly in the process of putting more pages up. (I'll always be in the process of putting more Yosemite photo pages up!) I shot about a dozen rolls of film on this last vacation. And I'm not even ashamed to admit it!

I use an old Olympus OM-10 SLR camera to take these pictures. It was one of the nicest gifts my old friend Billy (W.W.II veteran) gave me. It does the job just fine - no fancy cameras are needed to capture Yosemite's beauty! I usually use slow film (100 ASA, or 64 ASA slide film). These days I have my pictures put on Photo CD, which makes it easier and quicker to publish on this site. (I figure they'll just end up here anyway.)

The pictures on this page were taken over the last few years, in Yosemite Valley.

Please note: Some of my photos pages are graphics-intensive. (The temptation to cram in extra images on each page was sometimes irresistible!) On a slower 33.6 connection, they could take between 30 to 60 seconds to completely load.

L-R: Sentinel Rock in Cook's Meadow, El Capitan and the Merced River, and detail from a small watercolor I did of Half Dome.

My Yosemite pages:

Yosemite watercolors that I painted on location in the Park.
Some basic info about visiting Yosemite!
New! Now some of my Yosemite & California photography is available on t-shirts!
Black and White Yosemite Photos!
See the May 2001 Yosemite Photos pages. Between 30-60 second download of all images, on a slower 33.6 connection.
Yosemite Wallpaper! In all the popular screen resolutions. Between 30-60 second download of all images, on a slower 33.6 connection.
May 2001: My latest Yosemite trip. I brought my crappy little laptop with me, and wrote an on-the-road travel diary of my trip!
I have so many Yosemite Photos, I have created some Yosemite Photos Pages. New Pages just added, including the Yosemite Photo Album!
Yosemite Books - get some Yosemite books, (or a calendar, or a DVD!).
My favorite Yosemite posters for sale.
I have started a rather extensive page of Yosemite Archives - pictures taken from some of my other Yosemite web sites. Lots of nice photos - large page. Download time approx. 40-60 seconds or more with a slow 33.6 connection.
Go to the Yosemite Links Page: There are plenty of other good Yosemite sites out there!
You can see a "mirror" site of my first Yosemite & California pictures site (made on my EarthLink web space back in 1998) here: "JR's Yosemite."

Please note: Many of these pictures are digitally watermarked. Any unathorized use of these photos is not permitted, and will be detected by me! Feel free to use any of these images as wallpaper for your computer, but please note that many of these photos are also available as stock photography. Please read my terms of use page for more details!

Last updated March 25, 2005

(Much thanks to W. Thompson for the custom design of my email graphic!)

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