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I spent some time at the lower terraces when I stopped by Yellowstone in September. I liked this view with the steam catching the light from the morning sun. Any thoughts are welcome.

I guess I could have used this on Friday's Focus, but I just finished it up. This is from Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone this past summer and was at sunset, or just prior and it had that nice golden coloring bouncing around all over. All comments are welcome, Jim

Here is one from last year up in the Eastern Sierra up above Rock Creek off of Hwy 395 in California. It's really great to be able to capture the wildflowers blooming like this next to the creek. All comments are welcome, Jim

While shooting Mammoth Hot Creek a few weeks back towards sunset, even though the Hot Creek was the focus, I was keeping my eyes open to see what might develop around me and I saw this scene to the south. I really like the shape of that central cloud, it has a bit of an alien feel to it. It...

At Mammoth Hot Creek the photos of it are predominantly from sunrise since the mountains face the east and can get that sunrise glow and show all that cool mountain detail in higher contrast. But in this case we shot opposite normal wisdom since we had hoped to also get some star shots there...

This from a week ago at Mammoth Hot Creek. We had a choice to make for sunrise, there was going to be one day with clear skies and one day with clouds, so we chose to shoot Mammoth Hot Creek with the clear sunrise knowing that the mountains would get lit up and put on a bit of show with that...

Here's a pre-dawn look at hot creek, from a viewpoint near Mammoth in the Eastern Sierra. I didn't expect it to help, but my polarizer actually brought out some detail in the sky. Any thoughts are welcome.

Sunrise at Hot Creek looking toward the Sierra peaks near Mammoth. Any comments are welcome.

Near Mammoth in the Eastern Sierra