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I made a quick trip out to Death Valley as I'd heard that the wildflowers were exceptional. And I wanted to get out of the 50-70mph winds we'd been having for the previous 2 weeks. I arrived midday and it was of course, fairly crowded, but when I went back out close to sunset, everyone was...

I really need to find another location to shoot the aurora as I'm getting bored with it but this is only 30 minutes from my house. I did go up into RMNP afterwards, but everywhere I could think of with an interesting feature is either west or south of the road. It wasn't nearly as strong as...

I don't know if these are "best".......and it's a cold day, indeed that I got around to posting (after Jim Fox has nagged me a couple of times) - high of around 24 degrees. In no particular order: #1 Tetons #2 East of Tetons #3 Aurora Chapel on the Rock/Camp St Malo #4 Happy Canyon #5...

We've all seen many images from this place and it's getting very popular. I hadn't been there is some years & was kind of shocked at how many vehicles were camped there. I arrived just after dark (unfortunately missed the last rays of sun on Factory Butte as I was driving in) & it was kind of...

For the 2nd night. of high geomagnetic storm, I had enough notice that I could drive 3 1/2 hours north to Wyoming's Snowy Range. The lights weren't as strong as the previous night, but the drama at the overlook certainly was high. I had just pulled in & was setting up when I heard all this...

The app said 1% chance of seeing the aurora last night, but a friend forwarded shots from a friend in Denver, then added his own (he's 30-45 minutes south of me & 1000' lower), so I took off for my favorite local aurora destination @ 30 minutes away. At first, the lights were mostly NE, (to the...

A quick trip last week to Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. This was the sunrise across the road from where I camped the 1st night on the Old Sheffield Road. I thought I was headed to one slot canyon, but ended up in Big Horn Canyon instead (thanks to outdated information on the...

This house is in the closest town to me. They obviously love Halloween - have an open haunted house on that night (which I've never been to as it's a whole 10 minutes away). I shot these in the daytime & processed them liberally. At night they have a lot of decorative lights on, so I thought...

I didn't get anything as exciting as Jim Fox did in the Snowy Range, but I was really just there to car camp with the dog (in 2" of snow) and go for a hike. Just in case, I brought my camera along and got a shot looking south along the line with Medicine Bow Peak. Hiking was much easier than...

Well, actually, the first is facing east, away from the Tetons, but the light was so good, that I had to stop to shoot as I was walking down the ridge to find a vantage point facing the Tetons. A classic sunrise fizzled out due to the heavy clouds to the east (as well as obscuring the Tetons).

I went back up to the Wind Rivers since my last trip was so short. Jim Fox had shown me a photo to ask if I knew where it was, so I decided that must be a sign for where I should go. Since it's about an 8 hour drive and 9+ miles in, I decided to walk in a few miles (ended up being @2.7) the...

At the ridge between Upper Deep Creek and Ridge Lakes is this view of Little El Capitan. This was a morning shot (alpenglow was faint & brief and I was still 10 minutes from the ridge) - stitched vertical pano. This was that evening as the clouds rolled in. It was completely cloudy for the...

This is obviously a little used trail in the Wind Rivers....... The 1st bridge has a cross hatched log to replace it. The 2nd was just over a dry marsh. My dog didn't like it but was OK going over it, but on the way back, I couldn't get her to follow me onto the crispy marsh & she broke...

I just got back from a short backpack into the southern Wind River Range. Managed to find a smoke-free window -- only a few whiffs in the evenings of some days. This is Little El Capitan between Upper Deep Creek and Ridge Lakes. The next day was planned to be a traverse below Wind River Peak...

I missed the window of peak wildflowers in this particular meadow on one of my regular hikes (it was at peak 4 days ago when I was walking with a friend but didn't have camera gear with me and today was the first day I could get back there), so I settled for a macro of one of the Mariposa...

The recent rains have been a boon to the wildflowers here. I found some local trails I hadn't been on before with some little gems.

Prairie Smoke, Purple Avens (Geum triflorum) found around the Green River Lakes, WY area. And, closer to home, Calypso orchids are just starting to show. Spotted coral root orchids have been flowering strongly for a week now, but not up higher where this Calypso was. the larger patches of...

I shot back up to the Tetons for another attempt at the Arrowroot Balsomroot at sunrise. On the way, on I-80 (I think), there as a loud "bang" and I thought that maybe a bird & my windshield had collided, though I had no recollection of seeing something coming towards me. No warning lights on...

Last year I was too late. Peak might be next week, then the Mules Ears will have their turn. There were some great atmospherics that I missed because I hadn't used my tilt-shift in a while & it was taking me forever to adjust it. By the time I got it, the entire valley was socked in & the...

I guess that were I a half-tone herbivore, I would spend all day foraging, too. This guy (different from the previous post, unless he grew something like 20% in a week) made 3 visits to my house & property yesterday. On the last one, my dog was hiding under the deck, barking as he passed not...