Ponderosa pines at sunset after a snowstorm, Yosemite NP, CA, USA
Claudia and I are visiting family in southern California. It’s raining outside while we play Scrabble and Taboo and watch movies. I hope all of you are warm and safe, enjoying the beauty of the season and the company of family and friends. To all who celebrate it, I wish you a very Merry Christmas!
— Michael Frye
Also for you and your wife and family a warm Merry Christmas.
Also thank you for your great ebooks and articles !! They taught me a lot.
– Jan Beernaert –
Thanks Jan — Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Michael,
A good way to start enjoying the beauty of the season is with those endless terraces of trees in mist and subtle coloring. Thanks for your really fine, creative images this past year and am looking forward to the ones in the new year plus the inspiration and guidance from your descriptions of how you made them (and again, thanks for the easily seen exif data that provide hints of choices made).
May your holiday opponents not come at you with too many seven-letter words! 🙂
Thank you Andrys — happy holidays to you!
Merry Christmas to you and your family, Michael. I love this photo.
Thank you Juls — Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Michael. Have a great New Year!
Cheers,
Stewart
Thanks Stewart — Merry Christmas to you too!
Hi Michael,
May I wish you a Merry X-mas to you and your loved ones, a happy end, a happy beginning, lots of good light and please keep those fantastic articles, critiques, books and .. photographs coming.
All the best.
Johan
Thank you very much Johan — Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too!
Michael – An absolutely stunning image. Best wishes for the Holidays to you & Claudia. May 2013 bring good health & happiness. Frank
Thanks Frank — glad you like the photo, and all the best to you for the holidays!
Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year to you Michael. Hope your time with family is enjoyable. I’m taking a short breather from Christmas next door with neighbors-friends-family. Will go back over in a little while to enjoy the madness and din of all the kids, presents and wild joy.
Thank you David — hope you had a great time with the neighbors, friends, and family, and all the best to you in the new year!
Michael,
Thanks for sharing some Christmas spirit, all of the nice images on your blog along with interesting teachings and the various points of view from you and other fellow photographers for another year.
I always look forward to seeing what’s new from the “In the Moment Blog”.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you, Claudia, your family and your many readers.
Peter
Thank you Peter! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you, and I look forward to seeing in the redwoods workshop next year — if not sooner.
Merry Christmas to you and your family, Michael. Thank you for all the fabulous posts – I learn something new each time.
Thank you Vivienne — Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you!
Michael & family, may you have a blessed Christmas and a 2013 filled with continued
success and images that will inspire us to become ; photographers.
Sorry, that last line should read “become better photographers”.
Thanks very much James — all the best to you and yours for the new year!
Beautiful image Michael! I hope you and your family had a Merry Christmas! Here’s to a very Happy New Year full of beautiful locations and more amazing pictures!
Thanks Michael! I had a great Christmas, and I hope you did too. Happy New Year!
And a Merry Christmas to you, too. Thanks for your dediation to photography and your willingness to share your knowledge with the rest of us
I, too, am in SoCal, but for the with the wife’s family, but for the first time, on the way down, we spend Christmas eve and Christmas in Yosemite. Christmas eve was wonderful. Here is one image:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/c2/y/yosemite-0174.jpg.html
More on that page, too. It was our second time in the Yosemite for winter, and the first time we had such great light from a clearing storm.
Have a wonderful New Year and maybe I’ll see you there in May
Aram
Thanks Aram, and Happy New Year! I’m glad you got to photograph Yosemite with snow and mist — special conditions, for sure.
Aram, that’s a beautiful photo!
(I’ve seen people come in an post nothing but links to their own photos and hardly say hello, and wondered about that, but this one had nice context and that photo has a wonderful mood. )