Colours from Yellowstone

Some colourful shots from my recent trip.

So many fabulous colors and sights there to photograph.
Those pools are so amazingly clear it makes you just want to step in, eh? Quite frightening though, to think of what would happen if you did.....

What I want to know is did you manage to actually take any BAD shots?

The 3rd one is my fave.

There is a horrific true story of a chap that jumped in one to save his friend's dog. They reckon the temperature was 200 degrees c. Needless to say he did not survive. The dog was never found.

Plenty Just not going to post those.

Excellent shots. I especially like the abstract look of the 3rd one. An extremely successful trip, photographically!

K.

These are fantastic shots. Where were they taken? Where was the trip?
I ask because there is a lake in the Azores also like that.

Thanks

Hi Amin

I had a holiday recently travelling round Wyoming and Yellowstone/Grand Teton National Parks in the USA. I highly recommend it.

These were taken in Yellowstone at the Black Sand Geyser Basin and the West Thumb basin.

If you are interested I have more posted on my Flickr site. I still have lots of photos to sort through yet.

Fabulous images on your Flickr site Peter. Love seeing them.

Peter, I really like the third and last shot, but mostly the third one. Nice one.

have you got an itinerary of the trip? or park information looks like a beautyfull place!

Fantastic colours, esp. the 3rd one. #2 is interesting, the water seems to hang over the island or to be a surface seen from beneath.

I did quite a bit of homework before going, and eventually settled on booking everything myself rather than doing a ready-made "fly-drive".

I highly recommend this trip although unless you hop on a plane soon you will need to wait until next May when the snow has melted. The "rough guide" to Yellowstone and the Tetons was very helpful.

We flew to Denver CO. Picked up a car and spent the night in an airport hotel. Next day drove across Wyoming to Cody. Drive is about 500 miles but was not very exhausting (not much on the road). Two nights in Cody then drive into Yellowstone. Spent 2 nights in Mammoth Hot Springs in the north east and then 2 nights in The Lake area (south). Getting about by car is easy as there is basically just one figure-of-eight road in Yellowstone.

We then drove to Jackson Hole at the southern end of the Grand Tetons where we spent three nights before spending the last three nights in a log cabin in Signal Mountain (central Tetons). Overall covered 2,200 miles.

We had arranged to drop the car at Jackson Hole so we didnt have a long drive back at the end of the holiday. Flew from Jackson to Denver-Chicago-London.

I would recommend the Comfort Inn in Cody and the Trapper Inn in Jackson. The Cabin in Signal Mountain was a bit basic, but fun (imagine Goldilocks and the 3 bears). In Yellowstone you dont have much of a choice with generally one Lodge and restaurant at each centre (all run by the same company). They are all from the 1930's and again are not 4 star hotels. But they are all clean and the restaurants are all very good. Bison steak is lovely !

I suggest booking up your accomodation in advance. They will keep your room for you until the following day in case you arrive very late, and if you do need to cancel you can do so within a couple of days of arrival for a minimal fee.

Have a look at the US Parks websites for both these places, there is a wealth of information there.

If I would change anything I would add another night in Yelowstone and one or two less in the Tetons. If you like hiking/Trail walking then add another couple of months !!

Photography-wise....take a polariser/take lenses that will give you the complete focal range/and above all take your longest lens for the wildlife. I took the DA*16-50 and DA*60-250. This was a good choice, but if I went again I would take the 300mm (+ a TC) and leave the 60-250 at home. Basically you want your longest lens available.

We are going back for sure

Beautiful shots, Peter.

This is interesting for me at the moment as there has been a marvellous documentry on the TV here is Australia done by the BBC that is simply breathtaking. It takes you through each season of Yellowstone from winter onwards. Really very interesting.

Lance

It was watching those documentaries at the beginning of the year that prompted us to go there.

I would love to go there in winter too, but it is a totally different kettle of fish, as the documentary shows. Most of the park is closed so you need to do a very specialist trip.