Wednesday, May 16, 2012

New Yosemite webcams - stunning views, but not much action

Yosemite 2010 Quarter introduction, video

Yosemite Webcams, Yosemite Conservancy. Views are of El Capitan, Half Dome, High Sierra, Yosemite Falls, installed 5/14/12.

Don't get too excited, there really isn't much to see. These webcams have little action. The sky changes with the weather and time of day, its like a slow drip. There will be snow on the ground next winter. When the sun goes down,  what otherwise would appear to be a landscape picture turns black. 

The Washington Post/Associated Press, 5/14/12.  "New webcams show Yosemite National Park's top sights on the internet around the clock."  "Just in time for spring snowmelt: a webcam pointed at one of Yosemite National Park’s main attractions, the soaring 2,425-foot Yosemite Falls.

The HD camera went live on North America’s tallest fall Monday, allowing anyone with computer access to watch in stunning detail as shadows race across the towering granite monolith over which Yosemite Creek crashes in a series of plunges and cascades. It’s updated every 30 seconds through a high-speed DSL connection."  Read more (above).  I must have missed something.

Posted by Kathy Meeh

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