Valley View, originally uploaded by dmzajac2004-.

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I spent yesterday in Yosemite with a couple of friends, and we had just come down from Tunnel View where it was snowing pretty heavily so we decided to head out of the park to look for a place to shoot the sunset since it was going to be bust in the park. It wasn’t snowing down in the valley, so we stopped here to see if we got a little break in the clouds and some sunlight. Half Dome is obscured by the clouds in this view, but they lifted just a wee bit to show more of El Capitan. That is Bridalveil Fall you see on the right with Cathedral Rocks directly to the left of it. The Merced River is at capacity here and it’s only April!

Nikon D300s| Nikkor 1735mm@ 17mm| f8| 1/100 sec| ISO 160| Manual Mode| Tripod| Self Timer