Entries filed under 'Steve Bumgardner'

Rainbows at Night, a Visual Delight

Rainbows at midnight? John Muir saw them, they still appear today a few nights per year, and they're the subject of the newest installment in the way-above-average short film series known as Yosemite Nature Notes. Nighttime rainbows are known as moonbows, the byproduct of full (or nearly full) moons on cloudless nights during peak waterfall flows in the spring and early summer in Yosemite National Park. They are a challenge to observe, much less document on film, but the effort made by park ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on July 19, 2011 2:47 PM & Tagged Steve Bumgardner, Yosemite, Yosemite Nature Notes, Yosemite Steve, moonbows and national parks | permalink | Comments



Yosemite and Its Architecture: An Inside/Outside Look

Name the favorite building you have visited inside a national park. A restroom? Try thinking on a grander scale, as Yosemite National Park videographer Steve Bumgardner did in his latest project for the park's splendid short film series, Yosemite Nature Notes. For his 13th installment, Bumgardner focuses his perceptive eye on human architecture found within the Yosemite's boundaries. The park contains 5 National Historic Landmarks: 1. Ahwahnee Hotel 2. LeConte Memorial Lodge 3. Parsons Memorial ...

Posted by T.D. Wood on January 12, 2011 4:36 PM & Tagged Rangers' Club, Steve Bumgardner, Yosemite, Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Nature Notes, Yosemite Steve, architecture, history and national parks | permalink | Comments