Archive for October, 2009
Back in the Wichita Mountains
Oct 19th
Decided to take a quick day trip up to the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. Every trip up there has to have a stop by the Prairie Dog town the little guys are so much fun to play with. I would have loved having more time to play with the various critters that I found this trip, but sadly being only a day trip time was cut short. I look forward to heading back there in a few weeks hopefully. I will certainly be there when some snow is on the ground.
The rest of the images can be viewed in the Wichita Mountains 3 Gallery.
Bison Closer to Home
Oct 12th
The Fort Worth Nature Center doesn’t just have birds they do have a small population of Bison. Though its not nearly as impressive as shooting them in Yellowstone it was still fun to get a few good shots closer to home. I have seen this bull out in this field the last few times I have been out there, but he is almost always laying down with his back to me.
Overall the trip was pretty slow though other then the bison I only saw a few deer, but none of those shots really panned out into much. I however did take a few fun flower pictures and this rather cool spiderweb with the rain drops sticking to it.
The rest of the images can be viewed in the FWNC Wildlife Gallery.
Yellowstone Landscapes
Oct 12th
I have added a new gallery that just includes all the Yellowstone landscape shots I took during the trip. Some of the images you have probably seen if you have looked at the Yellowstone Gallery, but there are a few new landscape shots that I have just gotten around to finishing.
The rest of the images can be viewed in the Yellowstone Landscape Gallery.
Yellowstone and Grand Teton
Oct 7th
Yellowstone was truly an incredible place to visit. I have always wanted to visit Yellowstone. Seeing the pictures and watching programs on TV always made it seem like a far off place that you would never get to see for yourself and now having been there it certainly lives up to all the stuff you hear. I know I have hardly scratched the surface in Yellowstone and I am already ready to go back. This first trip was certainly a learning experience finding good areas to work learning what wildlife is where. Finding landscape to shoot wasn’t hard at all. I have only done a very small amount of landscape work and I feel I didn’t do too bad. Certainly an area I would like to work on some more. I have also had very little experience in shooting big game, but I feel I did fairly well. Some things I would do differently next time for sure, but I am pleased with the results for my first trip to Yellowstone.
Grand Teton was a suprise I had seen some pictures of it in a book and I knew I wanted to go there, but in a lot of ways I actually liked it better than Yellowstone. I only got to spend one day in Grand Teton and I wish I had had more time there. Got to see some moose sadly not close enough for any good pictures, but there is always next time. Having an Osprey dive into a lake right in front of you was great. I am pleased that the images came out as well as the did. Next time I will spend a few more days in Grand Teton.
I am ready to go back to Yellowstone and Grand Teton for sure, but sadly I will have to wait until next year. However I do have plans to head back up to the Wichita Mountains for elk season.
The rest of the images can be viewed in the Yellowstone Gallery.
