For one brief moment. Yosemite webcam.

[usonian]

Webcams are courtesy of Yosemite Conservancy
https://yosemite.org

[msongs]

1. nice pic

[SheltieLover]

2. Gorgeous!

Ty for sharing.

[usonian]

4. A pic that I waited 10 years to get?

I got an earlier rainbow to the right of Half Dome some years back, but this tops it.
And the webcams were improved a year or two ago.
Lots of fun to watch them.

[SheltieLover]

6. I'll have to try watching them!

Great pix!

[usonian]

7. I bookmarked the links.

Here they are, you can copy the link addresses.They are live, so they will all be dark as I post this.
If you can't copy the image URL (mobile devices), I am including URL's missing the h, so you can copy and paste and bookmark.

Half Dome over Ahwahnee Meadow/Ahwahnee hotel (behind the trees)


High Sierra (shot from Sentinel Dome)


Yosemite Falls (wait until it starts raining in the fall)


El Capitan. (basically Valley View, from Turtleback)


At this moment, the improved camera shows stars, and 4 climbers on El Capitan, just left of middle.



URLS:
h ttps://cdn.pixelcaster.com/public.pixelcaster.com/snapshots/yosemite-halfdome/latest.jpg
h ttps://cdn.pixelcaster.com/public.pixelcaster.com/snapshots/yosemite-sentinel/latest.jpg
h ttps://cdn.pixelcaster.com/public.pixelcaster.com/snapshots/yosemite-yosfalls/latest.jpg
h ttps://cdn.pixelcaster.com/public.pixelcaster.com/snapshots/yosemite-turtleback/latest.jpg

[littlemissmartypants]

16. Direct link...

https://yosemite.org/webcams/yosemite-falls/

Scroll down for the entire list of links by Webcam under the header "Other Webcams."

❤️

[wendyb-NC]

3. Stunning photo

Profound sky, rainbow light, ancient trees and living mountain with it's jagged glass face and reflection in the substantial rocks scattered in the foreground. Really fine pic, thanks for posting.

[usonian]

5. I really have to thank Mother Nature and Yosemite Conservancy,

Patience, and persistence: those come from over 50 years of watching nature.

[Deuxcents]

8. Beautiful and worth the wait, I'll bet. Looks like the sacred place in Avatar or another out of the world heavenly place

[usonian]

14. I check the webcams all the time. It's great fun.

Interesting finds include a snowman on Ahwahnee meadow (it's normally closed to protect the soil) and what looks like a coyote there.

Somewhere in the disk full of photos.

I was invited to a conference there once, and it snowed mid-week. Wow, what an experience. Nothing at all like rest of the year. Pretty magical. I'll go look for some of the pix, taken with very cold fingers.

Links are given in a reply I made earlier.

Just FYI, you can copy links on an iphone.
Hold your finger down on an image, and look for "share" in the popup menu.
Share via email, and in the draft email, copy the link in the message body.
Send or dismiss the email message.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. Thank you, my dear usonian, for this phenomenally gorgeous web cam photo!

It could not possibly be any more beautiful than it is.

[usonian]

10. You're welcome. It must be the best ever.

Sometimes, you click, and WOW.

The valley was full of smoke for days from the Garnet fire.

https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2025/8/24/garnet-fire

So nice that the valley cleared.

[calimary]

11. Breathtaking!!!

Great shot! Just Remarkable!

[usonian]

20. Cool thing about webcams.

Unlike using a camera, where you see the scene and click,
With the webcams, you click and see.
Well, this was completely unexpected.

Happy to share that magic moment, that lasted so short a time.
The cameras update every so often, not continuously.

Next visit, I think I'll take a view camera, grow a beard and wear a big cowboy hat, and pretend I'm Ansel Adams, less that awesome Woody Wagon he sported.

[Figarosmom]

12. Other worldly...nt

[usonian]

18. I think that's the beauty of the valley. It's ever-changing, and thanks to the webcams, anyone can get a glimpse anytime

I mentioned in another post that I was at a conference there when it snowed mid-week.

It was unlike any other time of year, and the others are not so shabby!

Winter webcam photos are pretty nice, though snow sometimes covers the camera on Sentinel Dome.

I'll find some snow in the valley photos and some of the easier hikes.

The webcams are positioned for some moments that are truly magical, thanks to the high altitude (Half Dome is over 8800 ft. high) and the unusual geometry, cut by glaciers. And clouds, of course, the photographer's friend.

[Tree Lady]

13. Beautiful photo

Thanks for the memory. I hiked to top of half dome summer I turned 40, so long ago.

[usonian]

15. WOW.

My daughter always wanted to but missed the signup every time.

Treasure that.

[Tree Lady]

17. Back 29 yrs ago you

Didn't have to sign up. We camped in Yosemite and did it all in one day no base camp. We left early and got back at 10pm which was insane last part from one of the waterfalls down was by flashlight.

One of my memories was a guy sitting next to box at foot of half dome with leather gloves because you had to hold onto metal bars. It wasn't like it is now where you can walk or have railings on side. It was very scary with bars going up and you had to hold on for dear life when people came down same bars. It was like looking down a mile to if you fell.

But on top I sang that song I am on top of the world looking down on creation.

[Duppers]

19. WOW, That is sooo beautiful ❗

Yosemite is breathtaking and was one of my favorite Parks to visit. We rented a cabin on "the floor" of the park way back in the '70's.

(My mother had a bad case of the travel bug.)

[usonian]

21. Tent cabins are still there. Did that once.

It's a real treat to get those "high altitude" views every day of the year from anywhere.

[George McGovern]

22. But What A Moment! Thanks usonian. By the way -- on your next visit take a second camera so you

can take a "selfie" (paraphrasing) with a view camera, beard and a big cowboy hat, pretending you're Ansel Adams. That's a shot I'd love to see!

[usonian]

23. I always carry too many cameras.

I got a doggie stroller, no fooling, to carry cameras around on mostly flat ground. Ansel used a Hasselblad later on, IIRC, for the moon over Half Dome shot. I recalled correctly. (1)

But most people recall his view cameras. Let's see if I can carry a view camera, 2 or 3 Nikons, 2 Hasselblads and maybe a Coolpix for crazy telephoto shots. No problemo. Phone for the selfies!

That incredible woodie wagon is all I need.



I might have to stitch a photo in the meantime.

(1) https://articles.anseladams.com/story-of-moon-and-half-dome/