When Laura and I arrived in San Francisco we spent that day and night at some of our favorite spots.  The next morning Laura’s friends and my dad arrived from Seattle.  Our vacation become two separate trips.  Laura and her girls would spend the next few days shopping the streets and San Francisco while my dad and I would hike and photograph Yosemite.

We signed up for a 3-day photography workshop that would take us to some of the most beautiful parts of the park.  Early mornings, late nights, high altitude hikes, rain, snow, lightning and thunder were all on the menu.  The weather was a perfect backdrop for some of the photography.  Blue skies are great, but thunderous clouds add a lot more drama to a photograph.