1.16.2010

Random scattering of pictures...

Just some more pictures as I have been taking as I'm out hiking around...

Sawmill Geyser, one of my personal favorites. It erupts out of pool that is normal dead calm until its 30-50 minute eruption. Rather than a nice plume that you often see with geysers it shoots out more burst like eruptions of water. This picture demonstrates that action well, especially viewed fullsize you can see the actually pulse of water...


Peace, quiet, and solitude...all thing embodied by this picture:



Buffalo use their massive heads powered by equally large muscles to push snow away and find something to eat, do believe that is what I have captured here:



I was there, trust me no gold at either end of this rainbow, just a geyser:



Firehole River Valley and beyond from the top of Mystic Falls. Sat here for a good hour just enjoying some brilliant sunshine. Worth nothing that the Firehole River Valley is just another name for the location of Upper/Mid/Lower Geyser basins. Who's run off feed the river which flows north to the Madison, than further north to the Missouri, and taking it even further eventually it ends up in the Mississippi (and so on).



Had an Ansel Adams moment (that would be Mystic Falls, on the Firehole River), pretty pleased with the results...


As usual hope everyone enjoys seeing these as much as I enjoy taking them...

1.02.2010

Geysers and Bison (oh my)

Spent the day wandering around the Upper Geyser Basin (the official name for the Old Faithful area). Was lucky enough to see Oblong Geyser erupting, Grotto Geyser being very active, and a large herd of Bison from not far away. Great way to while away a saturday afternoon.



Giant Geyser:




Oblong Geyser:



Close up of strange deposits near Solitary Geyser:


Its odd to find how large fires often miss trees every small tree in this shot is an out growth of the 1988 fires):


Just a random shot:


Series of shots of Grotto Geyser, the odd formations are due to the geyser essentially consuming surrounding pine trees in minerals to form its cone:





And finally, Bison (I learned today that the scientific name for Plains Buffalo/Bison is Bison Bison Bison):