Stanislaus River, Calaveras Big Tree National Park
Posted on 17 July 2009
My mind and mood is honestly on vacation STILL so I mind as well share some more vacation picture. Gosh that was so last month ago! I sure do miss vacation, no worries in mind, no stress, life was good. Now I am back to reality where stress is at every corner ready to attack, work is a pain in the head, and school is fully loaded with extra work. Ahhhh, I need another vacation ALREADY!!!!! Geeze, I am surely tired of this horrible and busy schedule of mine!
Anyways, these are pictures taken at the Calaveras Big Tree National Park in California, a bit northeast of Yosemite National Park. The trees were huge and umm huge. LOL There were lots of great memories there, I honestly did not recognized the place until we came upon a tree that I remember I took a picture with back in 1995 when my aunt and uncle from St. Paul MN came and visit us. I swear when we walked into the park, I just wasn’t sure if it was the same park, we walked around looked at some trees took bunch of pictures and nothing seem to look the same at all. Actually the first stump we came upon, I had a strong feeling I had been on top of that stump before, but just couldn’t put it into pieces. We must had walked through about ¾ of the trail when we finally came upon one of the trees that I remember my uncle had helped me sit on the edge of the hole and pose for my uncle to take a picture of. I remember it was not fenced like the one we saw. Then Bee told me that the fencing was recent, that’s when it all clicked.
We also came upon a tree that the path goes straight through the tree. I remember that tree because I remember I was racing with my uncle through that particular tree. He is a great uncle and loves us dearly; he has no children of his own so he and my aunt treat us as their own kids.
We then went to the Stanislaus River of the Calaveras Big Tree National Park, it was beautiful has how I remembered it. We parked and then walked down to the river to the same exact place we went to when my uncle came visit us back in 1995.
Well there goes my story; I hope you guys enjoy the pictures! Sorry I couldn’t get any good pictures at Big Tree but I did shoot some good river shots. These rivers shots are all slow shutter speed which means they were set for a very long exposure, maybe about hummm more than 12 second exposure at a very small aperture and the ISO must be around umm 200 or maybe even at 400. Sorry I am too lazy to look at my metadata. I guess when I do get out of my lazy mood I’ll update you guys on the actual metadata.
These two are the only Big Tree pictures I liked from the batch.
Below are the slow shutter pictures of the Stanislaus River. The first two are my favorites.
3 responses to Stanislaus River, Calaveras Big Tree National Park
I’m with you there, I need another vacation real bad, and the sad part is that I will not have another one till Christmas week.
Absolutely beautiful place, and beautiful pictures as always, it must have a real nice sound there also.
wow.. the river pictures look like paintings!
Hi mozemoua,
Your photos look nice. I went camping here with my high school ecology class back in the early 90′s. Such a long time ago!
I noticed part of your name is “moua”. I have a good friend from high school with the same name too. Last time I heard the family moved to Georgia. I hope they are all doing well.
It would be great if I could get in touch with him again. If you know of them, please email me at sadicat@gmail.com . Thanks