Yosemite National Park photos

Bridalveil Falls at Night, lit by full moon with a rainbow forming in its spray, dropping 620 into Yosemite Valley, displaying peak water flow in spring months from deep snowpack and warm weather melt.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 27753  

El Capitan and star trails, at night, illuminated by the light of the full moon.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 27756  

Merced River and full moon.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 27760  

Trees cling to the granite surroundings of Olmsted Point.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 09958  

Clouds Rest viewed from Olmsted Point. Clouds Rest is one of the most massive -- if not the singlemost massive -- granite monoliths in the world. A vast lobe of Mesozoic-era granodiorite magma cooled to rock and was gradually uplifted to its present altitude of 9926 ft. Later, glaciers cut it into its present shape.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 09964  

Glacial erratics atop Olmsted Point. Erratics are huge boulders left behind by the passing of glaciers which carved the granite surroundings into their present-day form.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 09967  

Sunset reflections in the Tuolumne River.
Location: Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 09975  

Mountain dogwood, or Pacific dogwood, Yosemite Valley.
Species: Mountain dogwood, Cornus nuttallii
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 12681  

Mountain dogwood, or Pacific dogwood, Yosemite Valley.
Species: Mountain dogwood, Cornus nuttallii
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 12691  

Yosemite Falls by moonlight, reflected in a springtime pool in Cooks Meadow. A lunar rainbow (moonbow) can be seen above the lower section of Yosemite Falls. Star trails appear in the night sky. Yosemite Valley.
Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 16093  

Giant Sequoia tree.
Species: Giant sequoia tree, Sequoiadendron giganteum
Location: Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 03645  

Pines and ferns.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 02336  

Mammoth Peak and alpine meadows in the High Sierra, viewed from the Tioga Pass road just west of the entrance to Yosemite National Park. Late summer.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 09953