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Springtime in a prairie is wonderful especially after a burn that regenerates this great ecosystem. At this time of year you usually don't get a wash of color over the prairie like you do in the summer and fall but rather patches of color. The first prairie plant to emerge in the spring is the...

Bart's post on Crystal Mill prompted me to start this thread. Let's all post our best image or images of this iconic feature.

My wife and I got stiffed on our glacier flight because of the fog so instead we drove to Mendenhall Glacier. At least we got to see the terminus of the glacier.

What I miss most as a result of moving from Illinois to Arizona is photographing Midwestern prairies. The greatest feature of prairies is that they have a succession of blooming flowers from early spring to late fall. This time of year prairies are awash with pink, yellow, purple, and white...

As I promised John Holbrook last week, this week's task is to show an image that you drove to in the early morning hours after staying in a motel. This is Pilgrim Creek Meadow in Grand Teton National Park. I had scouted out an image in this meadow the day before and knew what time I needed to...

I posted this as a reply to Jamel's post which was he wrong thing to do. Doh! So this is the correct way. This is sunset from Desert View.

Today, let's post an image or images of a location where you camped out right at the location in order to get the first rays of sunlight in the morning. Mine are of Muley Point in Utah overlooking the San Juan River valley with Monument Valley in the distance. I slept in the back of my SUV...

This is looking out my back door just a few minutes ago. This was lucky. I used the Jim Fox method of taking one long exposure after another and finally caught one. All I needed was a better ground setting like Bob's Sedona picture.

I'm not sure that this is a worthy comet image. The high ISO settings and near wide open F-stops make for soft foregrounds and lots of noise that must be corrected. The ISO for this image was 2500, the f-stop was 5.0, the shutter speed was 5 sec., and the focal length was 24 mm. I understand...

I thought it might be fun to feature images from relatively unknown places (i.e.. State Parks, Federal or State Reserves and Preserves, or just some place you have discovered, like Bob's recent discovery of another overlook of Tatahatso Point. The image below is Nachusa Grasslands, a prairie...

I took this image back in 1967 for my geology classes. It is a spectacular example of mountains that have been uplifted in recent geological time. You can see the old alluvial fans that have been uplifted and then dissected. The debris from this erosion is now being deposited along the fault...

I am very slowly getting better at this comet photography but still nowhere near as good as the others that are posting images on this site. I went out last night in Sedona at Bell Rock and the Courthouse trailhead to try and improve a bit more. When I got home and processed this one I could...

I was getting frustrated trying to shoot this comet in the early morning hours: I got up too late once; clouds obscured the view on several occasions; yadda, yadda, yadda. So I decided to try at night. I tried a number of different ISO settings from 100 to 2400. I could actually see it with...

A stormy day was breaking up at sunset creating the perfect light in this situation.

Its hot here so I naturally gravitated to a nice cold looking image. It looks like there might be some good skiing there.

We have lots of swallowtail butterflies here in Arizona. In fact, thirteen of the twenty-four species of swallowtail butterflies in the US are found in Arizona.

I am starting this a bit early because I have to go to Phoenix for my annual dermatology check-up. The theme this week is posting an image with an interesting backstory. When I was teaching in college and living in Illinois, a good friend and I would go somewhere to photograph during the...

This is one of the prettiest locations along the Big Sur Coastline coastline. The flowers in the foreground are Buckwheat and this was taken just as the sun was going down in the ocean.

Thursday's Task this week (07/09/2020) is going to be an image with a great backstory. Don't spare any space in telling a great story about the trials and tribulations or luck you experienced getting your image. I can't wait to see your posts. This should be lots of fun. Cheers, Doug

Monika is inspiring me to post some high elevation wildflowers. This corvid-19 crap is wiping out my wildflower season so here is one from a few years ago in Yankee Boy Basin in CO. This is Queen's Crown with some Marsh Marigold leaves. This is only slightly different from King's Crown...