I think if you were going to make one photo that encapsulated Yellowstone, it ought to look something like this. ;-) Don't get me wrong, it was an amazing park but it really is kind of like the Disneyland of the National Parks, at least until you get into the backcountry. This little scene came at the end of an hour long traffic jam. Yup, an hour for a heard of buffalo. Nonetheless, this image amused me and I rather like it.
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This was on our very hot, final day in Yellowstone. We missed out on getting a campground there for a third night, so we altered our plans and decided to head east into Montana a day earlier... which paid off with the trip across Beartooth Pass. But before we got that far we made a point to stop at the Boiling River, a geothermal hot springs that flows from Mammoth and into the Gardiner River. The water from Boiling is over a hundred degrees (hence the appropriate name) while the water in the Gardiner is about 50 degrees, so you can sit in these pools and have your feet in cold water and the rest of you in very, very hot water. It is a pretty cool experience. The perfect way to while away those hot days.
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This is one of the many times I love having a camera with a waistlevel finder. The walkway that goes around the pool sits about four inches above the water, much too high to get down to with an eye level prism and still be able to see what the heck you are doing. Of course, live view and articulated screens are equally handy in these cases, but who needs live view when you have a 6cm square screen that can be looked straight down on?
Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone is pretty incredible by the way. It is one of those sights that just makes you want to make photo after photo without any real coherent thought put into the effort, you just react. I tried to ignore that urge but was a bit confined by the limited space the walkway gives you. I spied a trail across the way that led up to a hill overlooking the pool that I would like to explore at some point and it would also be neat to see this pool under a full moon. But those are ideas for future trips. The most interesting way I saw this pool on this encounter was with the camera at almost no angle and catching the colors in the mist rising above the iridescent waters of the main pool.
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Cowboys and big sky, two things most certainly very Wyoming. Guess I was missing the mountains, they belong in an image about Wyoming as well. But I made this image while going up a mountain at least. ;-) This is looking through the tram window heading up out of Teton Village. I loooove tram rides. I think my favorite two words to hear in such circumstances are "tower swing". The ride out of Teton Village is a good one, if a little expensive. It crosses about seven towers over 15 minutes as it climbs over 4,000 vertical feet, leaving you above 10,000 by the time you get off. I could ramble for a while longer about trams (there is a couple pretty awesome ones in British Columbia too), but it is about time to head to work.
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It can go something like this.
At some point Earth was created (some say in seven days, or six depending on how you count). Volcanoes erupted, plates shifted, mountains were created. The sun rose and set, creating day and night. The Earth spun, creating gravity. Rain fell. A lake formed. The wind eroded, thereby creating through destruction. Speaking of destruction, the plates shift again creating an earthquake. Sometimes earthquakes create tsunamis. This usually creates wide-spread disaster. One time this created the ghost forest at Neskowin.
People are created (some say equally, others disagree). They create more people. Those people, at some point, create theories about creation. More people are created. One of the more fascinating things that they create are memories.
Trees grow and create more trees; forests are formed. The Earth is rotating around the sun, creating seasons. Snow falls and glaciers are created. They melt.
People create more things, some of those things are incredible and some ridiculous. The camera is created, and then the photographer (or maybe it is the other way around). National Parks are created to preserve that which all of the planet has worked to create. And then, in one such park at one such moment, a photographer standing at the edge of a lake takes a step to his left and creates an image, which in turn is a creator of its own.
Something like that, anyhow.
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