Half Dome?
As seen from Patterson, California
I don’t know the name of the photographer for this photo, but it was sent to us by RTA Photo Contributor Bob Brown. Here is his accompanying e-memo:
I just encountered this image of Yosemite Valley taken from the Patterson area on a Yosemite forum. I was rather amused when I read some posts that doubted the integrity of the photo, and others who worked out mapping probabilities, etc.
In March, 1971, I had a unique experience that I still recall very vividly: The San Joaquin Valley experienced a rare arctic weather front: Cold and windy weather that clears the smog out, providing extremely good visibility. I stood in the second story campus library, looked east over Monte Vista Avenue (“Mountain View,” in Spanish), up the Merced River Canyon and into “Joe Schmidt Valley.” I wish now that I had photographed the phenomenon.
I posted essentially the same information to the Yosemite forum, and it will be interesting to see if any doubt my accuracy.
It is really an interesting view and one that I could never have imagined would be possible. I didn’t think Half Dome was tall enough to be seen outside of Yosemite Valley. Have you ever seen this view?
Well, certainly unusual. I would not at all be surprised if it was a fake, it’s hard to see Half Dome from just outside the valley, let alone so far away. It’s also unusual to have it clear enough to be viewed. Still a cool photo though!
I know it is surprising to me as well. I would have dismissed it out of hand except for Bob Brown’s message. Bob’s integrity is about as reliable as anyone of us here at RTA. If Bob, told me the moon was pink and rose from the west…. I would be tempted to believe him.
Scott, Nice to see you here as well. This is a proof-of-concept blog — (hence the bizarre format in a few places). Like I don’t know why my name is cut-off on this message — it doesn’t happen on all of the comments and I don’t get it yet.
We are getting ready to shift most of the RTA content to a CMS platform and this blog is one of the tools we’ve been experimenting with. Would you like an account and post some of intel from your neck of the woods?
We expect to be able to convert (huge sigh) RTA’s static content to CMS by early summer….
Interesting explanation of the photo that inspired this shot: http://www.eliasphoto.blogspot.com/