I visited Yosemite, while beautiful, it is so commercialized. It feels like disney world for nature. It did not seem wild at all in the valley. More like a hippy tent city, with a pioneer village. I saw some deer, wanted to take a photo from maybe 200 feet away. And I literally could take photo with two other photographers in my line sight with the deer. It was a little ridiculous. 3 in one head shot. And a little moment of self reflection later, I realized I'm part of the problem by being there.
Wildlife is reclaiming Yosemite National Park
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#162OT - One of my most personal profound moments was chasing this winter photo [0] and sharing it with a coyote. I wanted to take a night shot of the Cathedral Rock (that I had seen a few years earlier but didn't take a good photo of it) under the full moon and fresh snow. It took me several years of driving up to Yosemite when there was snow storm and one night I got lucky. It was around 11 PM when the storm stopped an…
Really beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m getting a few downvotes but it’s honestly something I think about a lot. I believe we are incapable of understanding some things about how this (waves hands around in circles) all works. And one of those things could be how the earth might view us as it tries to survive as well. Probably a little wolololo for this HN post but still something I enjoy dwelling on.
I think you're crazy but downvotes seem unnecessary. I'm upvoting to cancel one out. And if only that dude would start making good movies again. He can do it, we know that.
My wife had somehow never had The Sixth Sense spoiled so we watched it recently. It obviously blew her away with the twist, but I also really enjoyed it again, the acting and story are all great.
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#164I hope we keep it closed, more or less. They could restrict visitors using a lottery system. No motorized vehicles within the park boundaries. The valley would have a chance in that scenario. Otherwise it will just be swamped by even greater crowds rushing in to "enjoy" (really destroy) the beautiful nature.
I visited Yosemite valley proper for the first time last year after living in California for five years. I was blown away by the scale of development and the sheer number of people.
If we truly want to save these places, we need to keep most humans out.
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#165OT - One of my most personal profound moments was chasing this winter photo [0] and sharing it with a coyote. I wanted to take a night shot of the Cathedral Rock (that I had seen a few years earlier but didn't take a good photo of it) under the full moon and fresh snow. It took me several years of driving up to Yosemite when there was snow storm and one night I got lucky. It was around 11 PM when the storm stopped an…
Sounds like a spirit. I had a similar visit from an owl during my wife’s pregnancy.
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#166I sometimes wonder if the earth is trying to remove us, its own infection of sorts. If memory serves this was also the plot of some terrible M Night Shyamalan movie.
This is probably the worst possible forum to admit to believing the earth could be sentient and could have a soul.
But I don't think there is any goal to remove us. More like slap us upside the back of the head and say "Hey, stupid! Stop doing certain things already!"
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#167> This month is typically a busy month in Yosemite: Of the almost 4.6 million tourists that visited the valley in 2019, about 308,000 came during April. "This month is typically a busy one: less than 1/12th of the number of annual visitors." ️
yeah, this sentence jumped out on me too, making the whole article so less convincing. those schools of journalism should really include basic math in their core corriculum.
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#168https://archive.md/TpE5t
http://web.archive.org/web/20200413161736/https://www.latime...
One can also get LA Times stories via Reuters, thanks to shared TLS hosting:
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#169I visited Yosemite, while beautiful, it is so commercialized. It feels like disney world for nature. It did not seem wild at all in the valley. More like a hippy tent city, with a pioneer village. I saw some deer, wanted to take a photo from maybe 200 feet away. And I literally could take photo with two other photographers in my line sight with the deer. It was a little ridiculous. 3 in one head shot. And a little mo…
That's a problem I have with Parks. There is a conflicting mandate. They 'protect' but they also 'promote'. My parents took us up to Yosemite on weekend trips in the summer growing up. 50 years ago they tended to studiously avoid the valley proper.
The farther you're willing to hike the fewer people and more bears and Germans.
Re: Wildlife is reclaiming Yosemite National Park
#170OT - One of my most personal profound moments was chasing this winter photo [0] and sharing it with a coyote. I wanted to take a night shot of the Cathedral Rock (that I had seen a few years earlier but didn't take a good photo of it) under the full moon and fresh snow. It took me several years of driving up to Yosemite when there was snow storm and one night I got lucky. It was around 11 PM when the storm stopped an…
I kind of feel like if you somehow combined a succinct version of the origin story with the photo in the right format, it could become a popular poster or similar. That's a powerful story and it's a very special picture in a world with no shortage of good photos, so that's saying something. It that makes sense.
And I'm not really asking you to commercialize it per se. I'm more saying that the story adds something of value to an already breathtaking photo and it's the sort of thing people hunger for, especially now with a global crisis uppermost in the minds of most people.
I mean it could be a one page static website. It doesn't have to be a poster. But it seems like a worthy thing to package together and make more readily accessible to a world hungering for beauty and spirituality and sustainable practices so we don't go cutting our own throats, so the world continues to function so we can continue to live and breathe.