Four Seasons of Yosemite: A Photographer's Journey

Mark Boster

Award-winning Los Angeles Times photographer Mark Boster captures the elegance, magic and mystery of the four seasons of Yosemite National Park in this new hardcover book. Illustrated with over 100 color images, the book includes four pages of photographer's tips and techniques with a foreword by Robert Redford. A DVD copy of The Sundance Institute's and Yosemite Conservancy's 1988 documentary classic "Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven" narrated by Redford is also included.

Based on the 1851 diary of a California militiaman, "Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven" looks back on the conquest of this primeval wilderness more than a century ago. At the same time, the film looks at Yosemite today as a national treasure sagging under the weight of three million visitors a year. "The most beautiful valley in the world," is seen through the eyes of those who struggle day after day to preserve it: the rangers, trail builders, firefighters and naturalists and from the perspective of the backpackers, rock climbers, tourists and backcountry skiers, who come to revel in its sheer ageless beauty. The result is a remarkable vision of Yosemite's past, present and future.

128 pages, hardcover, color photos throughout, DVD included, published October 2011