The Ice Crystals of Autumn: Yellowstone National Park and Pine Creek Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness

   This week, I made my annual trip up a couple different creeks to photograph the late autumn ice crystals that form right before the snow comes and covers them up for the season. I really like the gentle gleam and soft forms that cling onto plants, logs and rocks along the streams. I think you might like them too. Enjoy!


 First Pine Creek Waterfall

 Second Beaver Pond Trail Creek in Yellowstone NP

 And Finally, I wanted to mix it up with some fancy photoshop effects.

Pine Creek Waterfall and the Bridger Mountains in Black and White

   Hi everyone.
This week I am going back to the black and white large format photography. I made a visit to a local hike in the Absoraka Beartooth Wilderness. It is the Pine Creek trail with some nice shots of the waterfall. You will notice the ice forming (already) on the logs and rocks and yes winter is just around the corner for us in the mountains of Montana. I also made a drive over to a nice view of the Bridger mountain range right in between Bozeman and Livingston, Montana... I hope you like my work.

Looking South thru the Paradise Valley towards the Yellowstone National Park

Looking East up into the Absorka-Beartooth Wilderness area and the Pine Creek Trail

 The Bridger Basin and Mountain Range

Autumn in the Yellowstone: Bright Colorful Trees and a Snake

Hi People,

I have been still hiking around on my lunch breaks and finding some really nice shots with the fall.
Colorful trees, incredible skies and a garden snake make up the collage for the week.
Enjoy!

Yellowstone NP

Sunrise over Livingston, MT

Sunrise over Livingston, MT

Mr. Garden Snake

 

Pretty yellows and oranges in the hills above Mammoth Hot Springs

 

Mammoth Hot Springs Upper Terrace

Mammoth Hot Springs Front row of housing. The old military quarters.

 More fall colors in the hillsides above Mammoth Hot Springs