Sequoia!

[dianec42]

We just got back from Sequoia National Park. We saw a bear! (Yes, we saw a black bear, and it was brown.) We did waaaaay too much driving (and by "we" of course I mean stuartc). I took so many pictures that I am demanding a bigger flash memory card. Trying to copy them to the hard drive now and it seems a bit stuck...

Might try the LJ photo album feature in a bit if I don't fall asleep on the couch first. I wonder how to make it stop trying to copy a single file (there's no progress bar thingy up or nothin'). Stupid MacOS X, I still can't find anything.

update: Some pictures can be found here.

Comments

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Sequoias! I haven't been to Sequoia National Park since I was 9 or 10. I hope you'll get some of those photos up.

One of these days I would love to revisit the places I saw that year (Sequoia, Big Sur, Yosemite, Redwoods). It's always been interesting to me to revisit certain destinations as an adult.

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

I hope you'll get some of those photos up.

Done... top 10 are up! (I wonder what happens to those if I let my paid time expire...)

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Pretty! Couldn't find the bear, though. :)

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

Believe me... even in the original (3.2 megapixels) I can only find a vaguely bear-shaped blob if I zoom all the way in. Sigh. We saw a bear, really! (And it definitely saw us.)

[flyingwolf.livejournal.com]

I liked Sequoia. Drove through it back in '93 and stayed there for a couple days in '96. Was a good trip - except for the falling off the horse part. We climbed* that big rock to do some star gazing, but got up there just in time to see the full moon rising. I wonder how the area that they had the hotel in is doing. They closed it at the end of that year to allow it to go back to natural.

* well, there were stairs, but it was still quite a hike - esp since it was the evening of the fall

I haven't had a problem with the LJ photo album and OS X, but the pics I've uploaded weren't very large. The only thing I'd do if I had that problem would be close the window. The lack O progress bar is an LJ thing. I look forward to seeing your pics.

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

It was actually the Finder that was falling over, trying to copy one particular file from the memory card to my hard drive. I tried to kill the Finder... that trick never works. (I miss system 7, when you could kill the Finder and it would have the decency to stay dead!) Eventually got tired of waiting and 3-finger-saluted it.

Uploading stuff to LJ now... we'll see what happens. (-:

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

I took so many pictures that I am demanding a bigger flash memory card.

Next time, take pictures of smaller trees. :)

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

Well, I sure didn't waste any pixels on the bear! )-:

[aliza250.livejournal.com]

I liked this one best: http://pics.livejournal.com/dianec42/pic/00003bg6 ; also http://pics.livejournal.com/dianec42/pic/00003bg6/g2

P.S. One trick for photographing huge things like sequoias is to have a person in the picture to give viewers a sense of scale.