Pictures from my annual birthday camping trip

[K_Dub]

Some of you may remember me posting some shots last year from a backpacking trip I'd taken. Well, this year I carried on the seven year old tradition with another trip to the high sierra. I shot hundreds of photos, but of course the first ones I edit and share are of the SVX.

This location is one of my favorites. Last year I took a great series with landscape in the background, but this year I was running a couple of hours late and the sun had already left the area.



Here I am leaving Yosemite on the east side of Tioga Pass.



Tuolumne Meadows where I parked for a hike up to Cathedral Peak.



I was having a lot of fun hanging my camera out the window at speed to get "action shots" without all the hassle of doing it right. Here I was approaching Glacier Point.



This was the tunnel that runs on the south wall of Yosemite Valley (I took a lot of these).



Lastly, a bit of luck. I was setting up this shot, tripod on the bumper, using my headlamp to frame the shot, setting up the long exposure, etc. I clicked it to basically test the setup, when I realized that I was blocking the moonlight that I'd planned to have illuminate the emblem. Flustered, I turned on my headlamp and "flashed" it by keeping it covered by my hand. It came out better than I'd expected, considering my mess-up, so I didn't bother with a second take. There's a popular saying that goes "there are no accidents in film, only Buddhist miracles."