Took this photo of Yosemite Falls in June, 2011. I call it Yosemite Falls No. 1 because … well, because it’s the first image I finally got around to editing (look for Yosemite Falls No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, etc., in future posts).

Yosemite Falls is the highest waterfall in North America, and the sixth-highest in the world, measuring 2,425 feet from the top of the upper falls to the base of the lower falls.

I stripped out the color to make a high-contrast Ansel Adams-style black & white image.

Black and white or color? Mouse over the image to compare.

I captured this street scene on San Francisco’s Haight Street on June 8, 2011. This gentleman approached daughter Anna and me and said, “Do you want to take my picture? Everyone wants to take my picture.” He grabbed a pose, the other guy jumped up and applied bunny ears, I snapped the shutter and we walked on. Later, I found this really cool picture in the camera.

I’m trying out a few Picasa plug-ins for sharing photos. This one’s a slide show of flooding in and around Rochester, Minn., back in August, 2007.

I snapped this beautiful shot of Mount Rainier – wearing a fedora-shaped cloud; or is it cloud-shaped fedora – from the Skyline Trail near paradise on July 30.

The cone-shaped cloud hung atop the mountain all day long. It took the shape of a traditional Chinese hat for most of the morning, then switched to the “Mad Men” look around lunch time.

I took these photos (three versions of two pics) on June 12 on Prior Lake, Minn., with my iPhone and a little app called Camera+. The photo is nothing to write home about, frankly (you can see from the original, attached at the bottom), but with a few tweaks from the app’s editing features, I was able to turn it into something that isn’t half-bad, in my humble opinion.

What do you think? Do you prefer one over another?

Check out my photos from the Rochester Mayo High School hockey team season at MN Hockey Hub, the Official Site of Minnesota High School Hockey where they’ve devoted an an entire gallery to Mayo pics. Unfortunately, they called the set Rochester Mayo vs. Austin – it includes images from five different games – and they didn’t use submitted captions (which they had requested) so you have to guess who’s who.