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Blinny
Trad climber
JustKathNotMark
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Mar 11, 2009 - 09:53am PT
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WHOA. . . very cool. Thanks for postin' up!
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eKat
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Hoots
climber
Tacoma, Toyota
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Mar 11, 2009 - 11:33am PT
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Bump for AWESOME picture. thanks for that.
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mrtropy
Trad climber
Nor Cal
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Mar 11, 2009 - 11:49am PT
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Very cool
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Mar 11, 2009 - 12:03pm PT
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Bump!!
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Fletcher
Trad climber
here to eternity
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Mar 11, 2009 - 12:07pm PT
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That's amazing. Who knew?
Fletch
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ohhyesss
Boulder climber
San Jose, California
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Mar 11, 2009 - 12:17pm PT
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is that real??
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Mar 11, 2009 - 12:18pm PT
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purdy kewl!
Not only cool to see Half Dome like that but it's just f*#king good picture.
The contrast of the foreground and the Sierras, the color seperation, and the general compostion of the photo with the Silo in the foreground.
very sweet picture, nice job to the photographer! Jerry and Jody would be proud.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Mar 11, 2009 - 12:20pm PT
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With the thread title I thought, "oh no, another buttplug".
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Jingy
Social climber
Flatland, Ca
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Mar 11, 2009 - 12:23pm PT
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nice find....
Could this be the start of a new hobby? Finding a place to see something from far away, plotting it on a map, and taking pictures?
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luggi
Trad climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 11, 2009 - 12:53pm PT
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thanks Chris...couldn't pull that part off!!
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socialclimber
Mountain climber
CA
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Mar 11, 2009 - 03:04pm PT
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very nice...how much?
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Timid TopRope
Social climber
Paradise, CA
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Mar 11, 2009 - 03:40pm PT
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Wow! thought it was fake until I read the tr/beta on flicker.
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the Fet
Knackered climber
A bivy sack in the secret campground
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Mar 11, 2009 - 03:51pm PT
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The best thing is the Dingus flame war with the photog on summitpost.
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skipt
Mountain climber
Washington
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Mar 11, 2009 - 04:03pm PT
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I remember once while on top of Mt. Diablo I put a quarter into the telescope thingy and looked due east.
Imagine my surprise when I found myself looking at Half Dome. (It was a clear day.)
I've told this story many times alas no one believes me.
Now I have proof.
Thank you luggi.
Skip
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hooblie
climber
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Mar 11, 2009 - 05:44pm PT
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as a kid in the mid sixties there was a gig on the am radio that i woke up to which was a report from a ranger on the top of mt.diablo in the east bay. usually typical ranger stuff like blue jays or boy scout sightings but a storm cleared out one morning and his voice telegraphed the exitement about the view like never before. had to go. 90cc motorcycle across the bay. shasta and lassen to the north but the view into yosemite was a zoomer with shine. a fabulous gash in a a range as broad as your arm span and crowding the central valley into a strip. that memory helped sooth my impatience about the duration of the crossing from coast to crags in later years. the view from mt. hamilton is right up the slot. gotta pick your day, or rather let it pick you
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Mar 11, 2009 - 08:03pm PT
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Chris, Thanks for the magic of making it happen. lrl
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noshoesnoshirt
climber
dangling off a wind turbine in a town near you
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Mar 11, 2009 - 08:20pm PT
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Dang
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Mar 11, 2009 - 09:34pm PT
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Am I the only one who thinks this is 'shopped'?
Besides the obvious, having flown into the valley this
looks exactly as it would appear from about 7500' and
certainly not the aspect you would see from way down below.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Mar 11, 2009 - 09:40pm PT
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lebruce, wtf?, that's a badass shot worthy of a thread!!111z!!
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Tami
Social climber
Vancouver, Canada
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Mar 11, 2009 - 09:47pm PT
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Reilly I was wondering too if the original picture had undergone some ..........manipulation. So, yah, to answer yer question, yes, I had thought of it.
Buttits been so long since I was down that way thatteye just can't remember if it IS.........or iffit ISNT.
THe mention of hump made me wonder if it was gonna have Locker's fancy blue whooohoohoo somewhere.........
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Timid TopRope
Social climber
Paradise, CA
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Mar 11, 2009 - 09:48pm PT
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Reilly, Maybe the telescopic effect distorts the background?
Anyway I put a placemark on Google Earth at .6mi S/O Keyes Rd on Hall Rd and placed it next to a half circle farm plot. I put another atop Half Dome and slowly "cruised" from Denair to the Valley. At no point did the program indicate a straight line travels above 5,5oo ft to the face of Half Dome. So theoreticaly possible, I propose.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Mar 11, 2009 - 09:54pm PT
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Tami, Reilly, who cares....? A piece of art, no?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Mar 11, 2009 - 10:39pm PT
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Bluey,
Well you know we like to nit pick expecially if something is being purported as reality.
It's all harmless supposition. I just wish I had a harmless suppository.
Tami, I'm saying that Half Dome appears tilted towards the viewer. From a plane at 7500' from over El Portal or so it would appear to have the same aspect. Just sayin'....
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le_bruce
climber
Oakland: what's not to love?
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Mar 11, 2009 - 11:09pm PT
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Bluering - I know, right?!! That pic is unreal... not mine, though.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Mar 12, 2009 - 06:36am PT
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Photoshopped? No way. You just have to know the right places to shoot from. Like this
And of course you have to have the right lens. This was taken with a 970,000,000mm lens with an sphericl correction and an anachronistic rating of 3,000 years.
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nita
climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
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Mar 12, 2009 - 06:37pm PT
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I emailed to a skeptical Y. N .Park Service friend and she had this to say...
"I showed this to some folks here in the park. The consensus is that it is REAL. You can see Half Dome from that location (one of the guys here has actually seen it). The distortion is probably due to the telephoto lens.
I stand corrected. Very cool shot."
K
edit, i love this picture!
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Rudder
Trad climber
Santa Rosa, CA
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Mar 12, 2009 - 08:31pm PT
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Tami wrote: ""So, yah, to answer yer question, yes, I had thought of it.""
Tami, I think it's legit. :)
I may try to dupe it sometime... only about 3 hours away to the tripod location.
I figured 600mm or more... but it was only a 400mm... with a 1.6 conversion camera (cropped). I'd like to try with a Canon 600mm lens on my buddies Canon 5D full frame in RAW and enhance it in Photoshop from there. Might even be able to come up with something even more dramatic.
Deal is... that shot is through a telephoto lens... the naked eye does not see Half Dome that way from the tripod spot... HD is very tiny to the naked eye there... you would not notice it unless you knew where to look and looked for something real small.
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Double D
climber
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What an awesome photo! I remember a teacher, Phil Arnot, from high school had a photo of Half Dome from Mt. Hamilton sitting on his wall. It always amazed me that it could have ever been that clear until one winter day I took off on a flight from San Hoser and there she lay.
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PAUL SOUZA
Trad climber
Central Valley, CA
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Nov 26, 2012 - 12:36pm PT
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My question is.....has the photo been replicated by someone else?
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Nov 26, 2012 - 12:41pm PT
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Picture of the day?
I was just here a couple days ago.
Anybody name it?
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