With the road closures and smoke from the Big Meadow fire, I didn’t know what to expect during last night’s Full Moon Night Photography Workshop. We had our share of smoke, but it seems that when one photographic door closes another always opens. From our perch on Sentinel Dome we watched the sun turn into a red fireball as it set through the smoke, and later saw the scene above—the misty peaks of the Clark Range and Mt. Starr King underneath a smoky orange moon. We light-painted every suitable tree and ended up thoroughly enjoying ourselves despite the fire.
I look at this with much interest. We planned to come in our visit (to the US) in Sept 2009. Because of these fires we headed to the east coast instead. At the time I would not compromise, I wanted it to be as close to my dream as possible and the fires would have been unbearably sad. Now we are plucking up our dollars to visit again(from Australia) and we are hopeful that everything will fall into place this time around through May 7-13th.
Well early May is usually a beautiful time in Yosemite Barbara, so it looks like your timing will be good.
I have been looking at our camps over that period … here there and everywhere because of our late planning. We have booked nights in Upper and lower which looks ideal but we had to back fill with nights in Hodgson Meadow. We are hiring an RV so it looks like we have to trudge it into the valley each day as there is no bus out there. You gotta do what you gotta do I guess. :_)