I’m continuing to go through the 3,000 photos I captured at Yosemite in early August last year. Here’s an HDR rendering, generated from 3 photos, of Vernal Fall.
All of the water flowing down was in stark contrast to the drought warnings that Californians have faced for years.
The urinalists worldwide would call be the conserving of that water. Announcing that the flow of the Althabasca being used for oil sands was somehow related to the drought California and at the same time Canadians deride the idea of exporting water to the USA who we import water from in massive amounts in the form of produce, canned tomatoes,beer and Chardonnay for the liberal palette.
But a great picture
I love your photo, but that is a very low water level for Vernal Fall.
The California drought is very real. The problems are exacerbated by the state’s environmental lunacy. No new reservoirs have been constructed in 30 years. Water in the San Joaquin River Delta can’t be pumped for fear of harming a worthless bait fish (delta smelt). Water is released from dams on the San Joaquin River to try and attract salmon that have been absent for years. A massive pulse of water released on the Colorado River to prove that it could still reach the Gulf of Mexico.
The environmentalists answer to the drought? Don’t flush the toilet. Visiting a public restroom in California is disgusting.
Just Beautiful.
And if the eco-freaks from the SIERRA CLUB had their way all these national parks would be closed off to everybody escept for them and the wealthy hollywood supporters
Be a lot more beautiful if it were in private hands, put to some productive use.
As it stands, it’s mostly useless land. An expense rather than a generator of wealth.
Very true, that doesn’t look like much flow over Vernal … but come back in May-June when this seasons snowmelt is in full force. And true, CA has had 4 years of less-than-normal rainfall (2011 had RECORD-breaking precipitation throughout the state … RECORD-breaking). What I also noticed in Kate’s photo is the huge crowd of people on the mist trail. The last time I took my kids on the Vernal Falls trail … it was like walking a Wall Strret sidewalk at lunchtime. A sad reminder that CA has unchecked illegal fence-jumpers crowding my home state. I guess we can never return to the 60’s of my youth, when the state was clean and reasonably populated.
I was physically sickened this week when it became evident that the state DWR had launched a media blitz (through the docile, lapdog, media) to browbeat the public into believing that we are STILL in a “drought”. BTW … there is no precise measurement of “drought” … it is an entirely flexible term that can mean ANY period of below-normal precip. What utter nonsense, the way this term is being used by the government. I haven’t checked the rainfall, snowfall totals, but N.CA has been deluged over this MLK weekend, including an absolute gulley-washer storm last night. WE are being LIED to … by the government bureaucrats who are supposed to work for us. My parents generation were BUILDERS and DOERS. They built the infrastructure that had created a beautiful quality of life throughout this state and nation. My generation, and subsequent generations have created a culture of NO. A culture that seeks to destroy, rather than create. No … my generation has not built a single dam in CA … while allowing an unchecked EXPLOSION in population !
I noticed the link provided by Kate which appears to argue the persistence of the drought in terms of reservoir levels (not rainfall/snowfall). What an utter load of CRAP. You correctly mentioned that the STATE has DUMPED most of the state reservoirs in the midst of the drought (to “save” the fish. How is THAT “natural” ? Droughts in CA are natural and normal occurances, so why interfere by artificially maintaining water flows ? On the link, there is only ONE reservoir in CA with greater than normal water levels … Hetch Hetchy reservoir. What is UNIQUE about this reservoir ? … it is the ONLY reservoir that supplies water to the city of San Francisco. You don’t believe that the heart of CA leftism would choose Fish over People ? Nope. Leftists are happy to take water away from Farms and Red Counties … but not away from their own taps. We are being LIED to !
More pics more often, PLEASE!!!
Leftists are happy to take water away from Farms and Red Counties …
and turn as much land as they can into the federal wasteland called parks.
Wow, Michael, that is an amazing photograph!!
Bravo. nice image