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My dog & I returned to the Cirque of the Towers in the Wind River Range of WY last week to try for another shot of the aforementioned waterfall with Milky Way behind it. It's an 8 hour drive and I'm ready to stretch my legs after that, so we walked in 5 1/2 or 6 miles to Big Sandy Lake for our...

After a few hot, smoky, cloudless days, the weather pattern finally shifted and clouds started coming through. I'd scouted this location the previous afternoon: it was less than a 10 minute walk from camp, which was fortunate as after returning from shooting, I was only partway through pouring...

Escaping from the heat (well, only by about 5 degrees), my dog & I went for a hike in Wyoming's Snowy Range and caught some good wildflowers. Columbines were abundant, but shared the landscape with others. Avalanche lily (Erythronium grandiflorum). Most were past, but there were some in the...

A local hike yielded this Mariposa (Calochortus gunnisonii) coming out of the shade to take a peek at the sun.

Corallorhiza trifida. I saw this while hiking with a friend yesterday, but didn't have my camera with me, so went back today with camera. These are kind of rare around here, but are circumpolar and the only variety found in Eurasia. It's nutrition comes from photosynthesis as well as through...

I made a quick trip to the Cirque this week, hoping to re-shoot the Milky Way behind the waterfall. What had never occurred to me was that after a dry winter, the water would be too high and I wouldn't be able to cross Warbonnet Creek to get to the north side of the waterfall. Ah, well, having...

Tetons with flowers. I haven't had time to really look at these, so I'd appreciate comments about these shots. On the valley floor, the arrow leaf balsam root were just past prime, but higher up were scarce. Delphiniums and prairie smoke were numerous everywhere, but particularly up higher...

My first trip this year to the Teton area, I heard this strange explosive hooting around sunset at my camp. I looked around, saw a large bird sitting in a tree maybe 10' from where I was parked, but it was just sitting there, not doing anything. I kept looking, and saw a chicken-sized bird on...

I forgot to include this in my Landscape post. When I'd headed out that morning, I'd taken my 70-200mm & what I thought was my macro. Not. It was my 24-70mm instead. So I went back out in the afternoon with macro.......but forgot my tripod. This, therefore, is a handheld macro of Clematis...

I made a quick trip to Wyoming last week (when Jim Fox was at the Ames Memorial). The road I camp off of outside of the Tetons was only open halfway, but I was lucky enough to get my preferred site (about the only one that has trees for shelter even if it doesn't have the jaw dropping view of...

A friend of mine built this barn & wanted me to get pictures of it with the mountain in the background. The winter has been historically dry, so I kept going out after snowstorms, hoping the mountains weren't socked in. This last storm dropped 25-30" at my house (depending on where I was...

I made a quick trip out to Death Valley as I'd heard that the wildflowers were exceptional. And I wanted to get out of the 50-70mph winds we'd been having for the previous 2 weeks. I arrived midday and it was of course, fairly crowded, but when I went back out close to sunset, everyone was...

I really need to find another location to shoot the aurora as I'm getting bored with it but this is only 30 minutes from my house. I did go up into RMNP afterwards, but everywhere I could think of with an interesting feature is either west or south of the road. It wasn't nearly as strong as...

I don't know if these are "best".......and it's a cold day, indeed that I got around to posting (after Jim Fox has nagged me a couple of times) - high of around 24 degrees. In no particular order: #1 Tetons #2 East of Tetons #3 Aurora Chapel on the Rock/Camp St Malo #4 Happy Canyon #5...

We've all seen many images from this place and it's getting very popular. I hadn't been there is some years & was kind of shocked at how many vehicles were camped there. I arrived just after dark (unfortunately missed the last rays of sun on Factory Butte as I was driving in) & it was kind of...

For the 2nd night. of high geomagnetic storm, I had enough notice that I could drive 3 1/2 hours north to Wyoming's Snowy Range. The lights weren't as strong as the previous night, but the drama at the overlook certainly was high. I had just pulled in & was setting up when I heard all this...

The app said 1% chance of seeing the aurora last night, but a friend forwarded shots from a friend in Denver, then added his own (he's 30-45 minutes south of me & 1000' lower), so I took off for my favorite local aurora destination @ 30 minutes away. At first, the lights were mostly NE, (to the...

A quick trip last week to Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. This was the sunrise across the road from where I camped the 1st night on the Old Sheffield Road. I thought I was headed to one slot canyon, but ended up in Big Horn Canyon instead (thanks to outdated information on the...

This house is in the closest town to me. They obviously love Halloween - have an open haunted house on that night (which I've never been to as it's a whole 10 minutes away). I shot these in the daytime & processed them liberally. At night they have a lot of decorative lights on, so I thought...

I didn't get anything as exciting as Jim Fox did in the Snowy Range, but I was really just there to car camp with the dog (in 2" of snow) and go for a hike. Just in case, I brought my camera along and got a shot looking south along the line with Medicine Bow Peak. Hiking was much easier than...