Dusting Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 2014

Because of what the hot springs do to trees, Yellowstone is a great place for me to add to my bare trees collection of images.]]>

Snow Fence Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 2014

I guess technically it’s a fence in the snow, that wouldn’t make a very good title.

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Yellowstone Sublime Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 2014

One thing I love about the hot springs in Yellowstone is they have great potential for creating images with the kind of lavish visual impact worthy of Bierstadt, J.M.W. Turner, and the Hudson River School of painters.

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Exoskeleton Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 2013

An interesting twist of tree branches, dead and alive.

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The Ragged Edge of Winter Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 2014

A thin film of water flowing over the travertine at Mammoth Hot Springs; another example of a hot springs fighting back winter.]]>

Frost in the Air Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 2014

Hot water and steam  at Mammoth Hot Springs keeps snow and ice from building up on the ground yet actually forms heavy frost on the trees above.]]>

Yellowstone Thumb Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 2014

I always think of this dormant hot springs feature as being a giant thumb, but the official name is Liberty Cap. It was named that in 1877 because of it’s resemblance to the shape of the peaked red hats (bonnet rouge) worn during the French Revolution.  ]]>

Snowblind Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 2014

We have good friends who are among the ranks of Yellowstone National Park’s serious wolf watchers, spending hours and days looking for and peering through spotting scopes observing wolves and other wildlife. (Hi Ned and Teresa!) I like viewing wildlife as well, but am mostly content to wait for them to present themselves to me unexpectedly. That’s exactly what this wolf did a few weeks ago when I was driving back to Mammoth Hot Springs after skiing. I got some easy close-up photos of the wolf, but they didn’t really distinguish themselves from all the excellent photos that the wolf watchers have amassed since the wolves’ reintroduction into Yellowstone a couple of decades ago. So I felt compelled to take a little artistic license with this one.]]>

Layer Cake Spokane, Washington 2013

This is actually a multilevel parking garage in downtown Spokane. Besides a cake it also occurred to me that this image could be an extreme closeup of some very corroded platens on a computer hard drive. Good luck recovering any data from them.]]>

Drunks and Lamposts Bozeman, Montana 2012

This guy was neither drunk nor in need of support (although rumor has it there were times in his past when that might have been the case).  Instead he’s just a statistician illustrating  the old saying that some people use statistics like a drunk uses a lamppost: more for support than illumination.]]>