We departed Old Faithful to clear skies and minus temps this morning. Talk about perfect timing…while the whole park is gorgeous with frost, I have a few favorite locations to photograph frost and we were positioned perfectly for one of them…the Geyser Basin areas! We hadn’t gone more than a couple of miles before we had to pull over and photograph the hoar frost covered trees perched on a rock cliff against the blue sky…
Another mile or two up the road we photographed a herd of bison coming one by one through the trees along the river. Interestingly enough, the bison were not covered in frost but, the trees were…
Tangle Creek is spectacular on frosty mornings and we had to stop yet again to photograph. I wandered down the road a bit and was happy to find a shot that I have long wanted to make but, never had the right conditions… backlit trees with long shadows coming towards me. The steam and rising sun made it perfect…
Conditions werer also great for Grand Prismatic with blue skies and little to no wind the steam was not as thick as usual. As we walked the boardwalk I looked to the right as the steam parted providing a window into the distance…
I am always fascinated with the edges of the pools with their colorful bacteria, crust and the blue of the water. I have been working the edges for creative abstracts the last couple of weeks and have another that I really like to add to my collection…
Every day is different in Yellowstone. Today’s sunshine and cold temps made for great photography and happy photographers.
Images captured with Nikon D3X, AF-S 14-24mm, AF-S 24-70mm & AF-S 70-200mm VR II on Lexar Digital Media.
