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Getting High on Haleakala
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Route 66 - 2015
Navajo Country - 2014
A Ride Up Stelvio Pass, Italy
The Un-Yellowstone/Teton Photography Tour, 2013
Clover Avenue Elementary School
The Swingin' 60s - An Eyewitness Account
Homage Galleries
It's Hip to Be Square
Indian Country Galleries
Holiday Festivals of Los Angeles
The Mother Road - The Route 66 Galleries
California Galleries
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The Oregon Galleries
An August Ascent of Mt. Sill
The Tidelands of South Carolina
Yellowstone Country - Autumn, 2007
The Magic of Autumn - Yosemite, 2006
Sierra Nevada East Side - Autumn, 2006
Zion, Bryce and Las Vegas - A Photography Tour
Death Valley Haikus - Winter, 2007
Yosemite in Winter - 2007
Emigrant Highways - San Joaquin Valley, California
The Glory of Yosemite - Spring, 2007
Winter in Yosemite - 2008
Death Valley 2008
Yellowstone Country - Autumn, 2008
Mono Lake, Bodie Ghost Town and Autumn Colors - Si
Autumn in Yosemite, 2008
Route 66, California - Barstow to Amboy - 2008
Route 66 - Barstow to Amboy, California - 2009
San Diego Natural History Museum - Death Valley -
Land of Fire and Ice - The Cascades and Northern C
Return to Steinbeck Country
Point Reyes National Seashore, California - Previe
Rapha Continental -The Navajo Nation Ride
Beyond the Snapshot: The Point Reyes Peninsula
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Yosemite in Autumn - October, 2009
Sierra Nevada East Side - 2009
Indian Country and the Southwestern United States
The Southwest - Canyon Lands and Indian Country, 2
The Mother Road - Route 66, 2010
Family Camping Trip Galleries
The Fargo Street Hill Climb, Version 2010
California's Gold Rush Country
Yosemite's Waterworks, Spring, 2010
The Central Coast of California - 2010
Mule Pack to the High Sierra
Point Reyes, Tomales Bay, Petaluma - 2010
Sierra Nevada East Side - 2010
Winter in Yosemite - 2011
IPhonic Imagery
Death Valley - Spring, 2011
En Plein Air: The Central Coast of California
Steinbeck Country 2011
City of Angels - Photojournalism
Oregon Photo Tour/Ken Rockwell Homage - 2012


The 2009 Yellowstone Country photography expedition was all over the place with the weather: bright, warm sun, rain, heavy snowfall. As usual, we photographed a multitude of subjects, from glorious geysers to animated animals to lustrous landscapes. This year, I've broadened the geographic scope of the photographs to include views of our trip to and from Yellowstone. We made our way from Salt Lake City, where our group came together, through Utah, Idaho and Wyoming.


To view my brother Dan's gallery of Yellowstone images, go here.


Male Pronghorn Antelope
Eye on the Prize
A male Pronghorn Antelope keeps a careful eye on the love of his life, who waits patiently for his inevitably amorous advance.

To view my brother Dan's Yellowstone images, which he made on the same trip, go
here.
Bull Elk Calls to his Harem
Female Elk Finishes Her Lunch at the West Thumb Thermal Area
Raven Takes Wing
A snow storm suddenly blew down the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. For a while, a raven perched itself atop a hoo-doo just below the viewpoint of the canyon. Eventually, it decided to find a more hospitable location, and after making this photograph, I headed for my own sanctuary, in our van.

My brother Dan traveled with me. To view his Yellowstone images, go
here.
In the Eye of the Raven
My brother is a patient photographer. Employing his method allowed me to approach close enough to photograph the reflection of our van in the raven's eye.

To view my brother Dan's Yellowstone images, which he made on the same trip, go
here.
Female Bighorn Sheep, Near Big Sky, Montana
Young Bull Moose, Grand Teton National Park
These two bulls engaged in some good-natured shoving, near the Gros Ventre campground.
Cow and Calf - Moose Wilson Road, below the Tetons
Cow and Calf Moose - Near the Gros Ventre River, East of the Tetons
Bison near the Lake Hotel, Yellowstone
The Hunter and the Hunted- Bridger National Forest
Carl Jung posited the concept of a collective unconscious - the idea that humans can not only create and retain memories, but that certain kinds of memories are with us from birth, passed down as unconscious concepts that we draw upon to understand the world around us. One of those archetypical memories includes the Hunter. For sport, for food, humans have indeed probably hunted since we became human.

We found this hunter, walking with the head of the elk he'd killed, walking back to his camp along Fall Creek Road.
Reflect on Where Civilization and Wilderness Meet
Looking into - and out of - a storefront window, Afton, Wyoming
Self-Portrait in a Bumper, East of Montpelier, Idaho
Rick MacIntyre, Wolf Biologist
When you want to find a wolf, find Rick. You shall know this ranger by his yellow vehicle, in which he carries the tools of his trade, including his spotting scopes, binoculars, and an antenna (to pick up signals from wolves wearing radio-transmitter collars). Here Rick is unwittingly posing - in reflection - for his portrait while out looking for wolves near Mammoth Hot Springs.

To view my brother Dan's Yellowstone images, which he made on the same trip, go
here.
Figure in the Mist
We photographed a variety of human beings in silhouette as they wandered through the mists near a variety of geysers and thermal pools.

My brother joined me on my annual trip to Yellowstone. To view Dan's Yellowstone images, go
here.
Ranger at Dawn
Harvest Season, Willard, Utah
Cowboy and His Horse, Alpine Wyoming
There are still cowboys working in the Western United States, including this one, whom I photographed at a gas station in the little community of Alpine, along the Snake Rive.

To view my brother Dan's Yellowstone images, which he made on the same trip, go
here.
The Photographers - Oxbow Bend
Aspens Near Oxbow Bend
Leaf Along the Lander Cutoff, Wyoming
Hayden Valley - Coming Storm
At Mammoth Hot Springs
Yellowstone was for a long while known as Wonderland. It's easy to understand why that was so at places in the park like Mammoth Hot Springs.

To view my brother Dan's Yellowstone images, which he made on the same trip, go
here.
Canary Spring, Yellowstone
At Canary Spring
Orange Spring Mound
Sunrise Over Yellowstone
The sun, rising at dawn behind a ridge east of the Upper Geyser Basin, illuminates a steam cloud.

This year, my brother joined me on our Yellowstone trip. To view my brother's images, go
here.
Dawn Over the Firehole River
Was it worth waking early to view sunrise over the Fire Hole River and the Upper Geyser basin? I'll let you be the judge.

To view my brother Dan's Yellowstone images, which he made on the same trip, go
here.
At Oxbow Bend - Grand Teton National Park
Jackson Lake in Reflection
Seats at the Bluebird Soda Fountain, Logan, Utah
Winter Comes Early to the Tetons
Barn Below the Tetons
Gardiner, Montana
We spent a couple of nights in Gardiner, just north of the Yellowstone Park entrance, at the comfortable Absaroka Motel; I made this photograph from the back porch of my room.

To view my brother Dan's Yellowstone images, which he made on the same trip, go
here.
North Entry Gate, Yellowstone National Park
This year's trip to Yellowstone included one major component, in addition to the wildlife, geysers and landscapes we encountered: some heavy weather. Each day we seemed to enjoy the extremes of bright sunlight, dramatically cloudy skies, and even snow.

My brother joined me on my annual trip to Yellowstone. To view Dan's Yellowstone images, go
here.
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