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Thanks Bob, you have a good eye. ;-)

I know this is redundant Tom, but this photo is truly beautiful. It all really came together in this image. Kudos.

Thanks Jim. I don't think I was actually on a trail the couple of times I tried sunset shots. Being the first time in TM I mainly tried to figure out where I might have a chance to find water and an interesting subject. I got some general advice from a ranger which was helpful, but I mostly...

Thanks Monika. Sometimes my late night process evaluations leave me asking "what were you thinking?" the next morning. :-)

This was shot in the same general vicinity as the one above. This one is looking north, the above photo looking west. The problem with trying to find water to incorporate is that you run into many dead ends where you cannot easily cross or go around the water for a shot. Trying to accomplish...

Jim, water is really hard to find in TM I found out. It's hard to see when walking and you can't tell where it may twist and turn relative to any general composition. Not to mention that at that time of year I found a lot of dry tributaries. I have one water photo I will post that has just a...

At the risk of posting too late at night and regretting this in the AM, I will offer up this sunset from my recent Yosemite trip.

Yeah, I'd like to get more water in my fall colors. I've been thinking of how to better do that this year. Lakes or streams, I think water really adds to many of those shots. Most of the higher elevations where the lakes are, tend to be past peak when I'm there. Guess we'll see how it goes this...

Thanks Kyle. It sounds like I'm starting to do some of the right things. Getting more familiar with relating the back of the camera view to the larger monitor view is definitely a big key.

I agree with the idea of a pano crop and taking a little off the bottom. I have a similar shot from my visit earlier this year and that's about how I ended up presenting it. More and more I have been cropping a lot of my landscapes at a 2:1 aspect ratio. I really like how that ratio looks. As...

I'm booked at June Lake for Oct 7-11. If anybody plans to visit the Eastern Sierra then, maybe we can meetup.

Thanks Jim. Getting the composition right is always a big issue for me. And obviously more so with water as the subject since I haven't done much of it. I did notice that too much water creates those solid areas which aren't always so desirable. But I find a larger area of context with some...

Yeah, that's for sure. But it also helps to have a good understanding and starting point. That shot was the third location over the trip where I stopped and spent a good hour shooting water within a few feet of my original stopping point. I feel like I already had a little better idea what I...

Thanks Alan. I was chimping a lot but you're right, nothing looks the same on the back of camera as it does on a monitor. And I also realized that the speed of the water has quite the impact on what the blur will look like. It was definitely the slower part of the season for this river and the...

Thanks Ben. You make some good points. For the record I like the first better as well. The second one was not by design but only done after the fact to see how it would look. I actually use that technique sometimes on my landscapes to soften a look where I think it is appropriate. I should have...

I've done very little of it. For big powerful waterfalls as seen in Yosemite I prefer faster shutter speeds which will capture the power of the larger falls. I haven't really had much opportunity to capture many of the slower moving falls, creeks or rivers. My just completed trip to Tuolumne...

Thanks Kyle. From my location it was always the plan to come up 395 so at least that isn't an issue for me. :-)

This shot was taken from the parking lot at Olmstead Point. That area is and has always been open during the fires even though smoke has been bad at times. The campsite I have reserved is a few miles east of this spot. They are making good progress getting the fire contained and so the...

While I sit and vacillate on whether to stay home or go to Tuolumne Meadows Sunday morning, I thought I would post this photo. It was taken only last year, in October when I was shooting fall colors in the Easter Sierra. I usually drive up to Olmsted Point for one sunset on this annual trip...

Thanks Douglas. The combination of varying colors in relatively the same place is what drew me to this composition. I like that variety of colors.