July 2017

POTD: Spa Treatment

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Spa Treatment
Yellowstone National Park
2017

It turns out that the trail that the bison in yesterday’s photograph was preventing me from traversing was right next to a small buffalo wallow. So perhaps he was just being protective of his favorite spa. After watching him for a while he did a few rolls in the dust. This shot was taken just after he jumped up and was shaking himself off.

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POTD: Face to Face

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Face to Face
Yellowstone National Park
2017

I was walking down a trail in Yellowstone looking off to the side admiring a big field of brightly colored flowers and generally not paying a lot of attention to anything else when I glanced in front of me to see this big fellow standing in the trail ahead of me. I was a bit too close for safety, especially considering he appeared to be taking a more than passing interest in me for some reason. I shot this image (with my telephoto) after backing off a ways and sitting on a rock. I waited for him to wander off, which he didn’t do, so I walked a wide detour through the marshy meadow. Wet shoes from boggy ground is better than a good goring any day.

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