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Lake Clark National Park on the Go

Posted on March 24, 2017, 12:53 pm, by QT Luong, under Locations.
Lake Clark National Park is the third less visited of America’s 59 National Parks. Lack of road access may contribute to that. My summer visit used a chartered floatplane to travel into the park’s backcountry. On a recent 2.5-day visit aimed at seeing some of the park in the autumn, I limited explorations to the […]
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Which is the Best Photo of Horsetail Fall Firefall?

Posted on March 16, 2017, 1:18 am, by QT Luong, under Esthetics.
I wrote previously about finding a new view of Horsetail Fall, Yosemite “natural firefall”. The high vantage point let me frame the waterfall in a rich wide-angle composition that brought me much satisfaction. But would most people consider it to be “better” than the classic photograph? What would their relative preferences say? On the day […]
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Pinnacles Moses Spring Waterfall at Least

Posted on March 7, 2017, 11:40 pm, by QT Luong, under Locations.
For most of the year, Pinnacles National Park is quite a dry place. I revisited right after the high rains of this winter – which put to shame last year’s El Nino conditions, to observe the place transformed by the flow of the creeks and to photograph another elusive waterfall. Pinnacles lies less than 50 […]
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