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  Yosemite Valley -142 Years Later

  12.12.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  

  I was recently reading about famed photographer Carleton Watkins who took a lot of the famous early photographs of the National Park System, and I came across this shot “Yosemite Valley from the Best General View” from 1866.   I noticed that it was taken from a similar vantage point as one of the photos [...]