Yosemite Park, in the American state of California, is one of the wonders the Earth has given us — one of those places that everyone should visit in person at least once in their lifetime. But if that moment is still a long way off, two photographers decided to fill this gap by producing a pair of timelapse, high-definition (HD) videos under the name Project Yosemite.

The two are called Colin Delehanty and Sheldon Neill. The first video (Yosemite HD) was shot at night at the summit of Half Dome, a granite rock 2,694 metres high. "Being on Half Dome that night," the duo later said, "was like being on another planet — a smooth granite surface beneath our feet and infinite space spinning above our heads. The sunrise then felt like the first one we had ever seen."

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The second video (Yosemite HD II) is even more impressive because it takes us deep into the park as if we ourselves were the ones with hiking boots on our feet and a rucksack on our backs, searching for places never seen before. A route of more than 320 kilometres that took ten months of work.

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Those who have already been there will surely be overcome by nostalgia and have probably already started reliving that trip, while those who have never visited Yosemite are perhaps already daydreaming.