7/30/18

This is an image I was able to get on a trip to Yellowstone.  I may have shared a very similar one before.  It fit a theme over on G+ so I used it for that too.  This is the only time I have ever seen a bear in the wild during the day and have been able to photograph it.  I saw this bear on our trip to Yellowstone a while back.  I had seen them at night before raiding trash at a campsite in Colorado once but too dark for photos.  It was cool to be able to see one.  Not sure what type, looks big even far away.  😃

4/22/18

Happy Earth Day though Earth Day should be Every Day.  I thought I would share the earth creating some of it's own mist and steam today.  This is Riverside Geyser in Yellowstone National Park putting on quite the show when I was there a few years back.

2/20/18

So we actually got rain but it was icy rain that caused a 2 hour delay.  Weird winter.  I was going through the archives and found this image.  It amazes me that these two trees have such tenacity and seem to be thriving in such a barren area.  I love the color of the water that is from the hot springs in the area as well.

2/18/18

I usually share trains today because Sundays are for steam!  :-)  This is a different kind of mist.   A few years back, I had hiked down a lot of stairs into the Canyon of the Yellowstone to get this view of the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone.  I thought it was quite worth it to be able to capture this great rainbow in the mist created from the falls.  The hike back up those 328 stairs, 500 vertical feet was pretty tiring.  

1/14/17

So our ice still is predicted.  I am hoping it turns out to be not so bad as a lot of their predictions do.  I am just thinking warm thought of summer days like this one several years ago on a trip to Yellowstone National Park.  We had just arrived at the park and set up our trailer and decided to go for a walk down to Fishing Bridge which was what our campground was named for.  This was the sunset I was able to view and a great way to spend the first few hours in the park.  This image was difficult to get with it looking nice as there were so many insects, most likely mosquitoes, swarming about.  I got lucky with this shot.

10/12/16

We are getting pretty cold tonight, maybe frost, not fond of that as my tomatoes are doing well again.  I'm going to take a chance and not cover them so wish me luck.  I felt like sharing a waterfall today and I have had this image for a while now.  This is from the trip to Yellowstone National Park.  This is a view of the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone from Artist's Point.  Love the color of the water against that yellow-ish rock.  

2/29/16

Well, I should be posting something fun and clever for this extra day in the year but I've got nothing.  :-)  I do have this bird photo that I was trying to get an ID on over on Google +.  I saw this bird in Yellowstone National Park in the Mammoth Hot Springs area.  This image is cropped quite a bit to show detail so I could hopefully get an ID.  I loved it's long wings and tail and blue color.

2/28/16

Feels like late spring out there today instead of late winter.  Posting a bit late today for a Sunday.  My image today is still steamy but a bit different for me.  This is a 2 shot panorama from Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park.  It is a rather alien and somewhat desolate area but also beautiful with the terracing and colors caused but the mineral deposits from the hot springs.  Best viewed large by clicking on it.  There's a bit of steam at the very top center where the hot water if bubbling out and over the sides.

2/24/16

I'm on vacation today so posting early.  Had a day to use or lose so catching up on some stuff at home and smoking a brisket.  Hope it turns out well, wish me luck.  Anyway, my image for today goes back into the archives and the trip to Yellowstone National Park.  There were several waterfalls to see there and this one was a bit different of any I have ever seen.  This one is called Wraith Falls and the water came down the wide rock sort of rippled surface which provided a type of slide that kept the water wide and thin over the surface.  Made it more difficult to photograph and also with the bright sun right on it at the time.  I think I did OK with it.  :-)

2/6/16

Well, looks like not much sign of winter for the next several days.  I hate this in-between time.  Too cold for things to grow yet not cold enough to really protect those things.  Could be an interesting Spring.  My image for today goes back a while to the trip to Yellowstone National Park.  I had shared an image similar to this not long after I got back taken at a bit later time but I always liked this one for the light. color and reflections so sharing it now.  It was a lovely sunset to see and seemed like it was only me and the duck in the water that were enjoying it at that moment.  :-)

1/5/16

Well, turned into a nice day.  I was reminded that January and February are usually dreary so I should expect it to be that way.  I hate it though, especial right after the holidays and the decorations are down, especially the lights.  Sigh.  So blah.
Anyway, dreaming of warmer days and continuing on with my Nature Challenge.  I did not see a time limit for when photos could be taken and I had this shot I wanted to use one day ready to go from the archives.  This is a beautiful Elk I was able to see and photograph during our trip to Yellowstone.  It was just slowly walking along and eating new growth in this previously burned out part of the park.  It was just wonderful with it's big tack of antlers.  I felt very privileged to be able to see it and photograph it.

12/16/15

Finally a beautiful sunny clear day!  Lovely if a bit cool but that's more normal for this time of year so it's all good.  :-)  My image today is from our trip a couple of years back to Yellowstone National Park.  I love it there, so unique and beautiful.  This is a view of the Upper Falls of the Yellowstone.  This is a bit of a long exposure with a neutral density filter to give the falls a more milky look.

12/9/15

This is an older image that I got in Yellowstone National Park.  This is a Pelican that was coming in for a landing one evening on Yellowstone Lake.  I was pleased that I was able to capture it clearly in the low light.

3/4/15

This is another view of the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone in Yellowstone National Park.  This view was taken on Uncle Tom's Trail.  It is about a 500 feet decent into the Canyon of the Yellowstone on about 300 steps.  Going down wasn't too bad but going back up was rather strenuous.  I took this image on one of my rest stops back up the stairs.  It's a bit of a long exposure as well to get the look of the water as it is.

2/18/15

It's been cold and boring out so I have been going through old photos looking for ones I had not shared before.  I was looking at our Yellowstone trip and found this image of the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone that I shot from Artist's Point with a zoom.  This picture has gone nuts over on Google + so I guess I found a good one.  :-)

2/16/15

This is an older image but I like it because it's one of the only times I have gotten a decent Heron image.  This was taken on our Yellowstone trip one morning as we were heading out to sight-see.  There were all these people with cameras lined up alongside the road and when I looked to see what they found so interesting I saw this Heron in a pond.  It was just calmly wading back and forth near the one edge and must have been doing so for a while before I got there.  It seemed very content to let a bunch of people take it's picture.  This one I liked a lot because of the reflection.  I wish other Herons I have seen would be so cooperative.  

11/16/14

I was going through some older images and I decided to share this one today to think warm thoughts.  Winter has arrived early and woke up to a bit more snow today though nothing like what they had predicted,  Anyway, this is Dragon Mouth Spring from Yellowstone National Park.

9/10/14

This is a wild flower called Fringed Gentian.  I found this in a hot springs pool area near Old faithful when we were in Yellowstone and have never shared it.  This flower must really have like the conditions around the pools as there were quite a number of them just in this one area.

5/4/14

Another image from Yellowstone.  I just loved it there with such unique views to see.  This steamy area with it's blue pools was almost alien looking.  This is the Black Growler Vent in the Norris area of Yellowstone National Park.  The Tetons can be seen in the distance.

4/20/14

Happy Easter if you celebrate!  A photo from Yellowstone today.  This is one of the 2 geysers at Grotto Geyser being quite active.  This was one of my favorite geysers to watch.  While it didn't fully erupt it was very actively emitting nice bursts of water and lots of steam.  A very interesting one to sit and watch for a while.