Chasing the Aspens… And a Storm?

I have plans to photograph the eastern Sierra aspen color this weekend, but it looks like there will be a “bit of weather,” as the first real Pacific weather front of the season will pass through. My first instinct was to perhaps not make the trip since this sort of weather makes things a lot less predictable. But my second instinct – hopefully the better of the two! – was to note that the front will pass and that the conditions may turn out to be a lot more photographically compelling than the usual pre-front weather.

In any case, I’ll have more to report soon – either from on the road or when I return.

Site Status Update

I think I’m finally making some real progress on getting this web site back to a functional state. I think (knock really, really hard on wood – twice) that this blog and the companion gallery site are now more or less fully functional. One major issue remains and will likely not be resolved until last week – restoring the photographs that were archived in the gallery. At the moment they are gone, but I have a copies and I will be able to take care of the time-consuming work of restoring them.

Meadow and Morning Fog, Half Dome and Glacier Point

Meadow and Morning Fog, Half Dome and Glacier Point

Meadow and Morning Fog, Half Dome and Glacier Point. Yosemite National Park, California. April 21, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Early morning fog above an oak-studded meadow in Yosemite Valley, with the cliffs of Half Dome and Glacier Point above. Yosemite National Park, California.

This is a photograph I recently revisited. It was made on a very cold April spring morning in the Valley as the sunlight began to stream over Half Dome and illuminate the Glacier Point apron and as ground fog began to lift from meadows on the floor of the Valley.

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More Problems… and Still Digging

An update on efforts to get this site working fully again:

  1. The home page appears to work, but…
  2. I discovered today that the hosting company changed something in the configuration that renders all other pages on the site inaccessible. I have a helpdesk request out to them. :-(
  3. I have to completely rebuild my gallery from scratch. :-(
  4. I have created the gallery, but it will take me some time to put all of the photos from the past year back into it. :-(

I continue to try to be polite and not publicly use the words that I’m thinking as I deal with this mess, and I continue to refrain from mentioning who my hosting company is.