Best Way to Experience Yosemite?
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Mountains of experience reach beyond the edge of the picture frame.
© Sam Anaya
Open Your Eyes, Take Home the Full Picture
Whenever I set foot in Yosemite, I feel the need to capture the grandeur of nature, extend the experience, and take it home with me. But, on this trip, I put my camera down and heeded a quote from Henry David Thoreau:
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
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Is it possible to capture the intangible essence of an experience in a photo?
Or, do you just need to be there?
© Sam Anaya
How did I reach that decision? I found myself surrounded by other travelers engulfed in recording their experiences, one eye always shut as they looked through the lens of a camera. I...
