One eye on me, one eye on the herd.  Good bull.

Here’s one from what was our last day in the park.  That’s my step dad in the shot.

I can never get these silhouette photos quite right, but this one’s not too bad.

One nice thing about the time of the year was that there were newborn bison and elk all over the place.  At one point, we came around a bend in the road and saw a mother elk and a baby that  looked to have been born within the past hour. It wobbled around trying to follow the wary mother, who didn’t like our sudden presence, so we moved on quickly.  This was just after dusk so I didn’t get any shots, but I had plenty of opportunity later on.

Due to the weather, this is my only sunrise shot from the trip, sadly.  I’m not sure it really captures the magnificence of the actual site, but I did my best.

Another shot from atop Mammoth Falls.

At least, I think it’s a raven.  Could be wrong.

A beautiful animal.  The elegant lines get me every time.

Taking this photo involved sprawling on my belly on the catwalk and getting as low to the ground as I could.  Let me tell ya, the tourists were not very patient with me trying to get this one right.  I like it quite a bit though.

Spring tussle.  Not as sharply captured as I would like, but I was working with some really nasty light.

Backlighting+ bull elk + velvet antlers = magic.

Towards the end of the trip, we got some good breaks on lighting, and we spent that light scouring the northern parts of the park looking for wildlife.  There was no shortage of elk or bison, but I struggle to take an original photo of them.  The way the light hit the various plants on this hillside while the bull elk grazed struck me as something I hadn’t quite seen before.  So here you go!

Here’s another shot from my first evening in the park.  Unfortunately, this night turned out to produce most of my great images.   We had a really fantastic sky when the rains broke for a while.

We got very lucky our second day in the park and spotted this coyote hunting mice.  I have a whole series of action shots I think you will enjoy.  I’ll be posting them throughout the coming weeks.

This photo blog is coming back to life as a place for me to share my photography again, but on terms that better suit the way I shoot.  Daily shooting wasn’t working out for me, but this might.

The above was taken on my first evening in Yellowstone, at a thermally active area on the shore of Lake Yellowstone called West Thumb Geyser Basin.  Some of my best shots came from here not because of the scenery but because of the light.  Unfortunately, it rained over much of my trip.  I learned a tremendous amount on this, my first of hopefully many trips to the area.   I’ll be sharing my lessons learned in the future.  Until then, here come pictures.

Sarah needed a photo for a school project, so we put this together in the alley in half an hour.  I’m not super-happy with it.  There are a lot of things I would have liked to try, but the rain was moving in.

Now I am just cheating.

Too dizzy to take pictures of anything else today.