Laura Weishaupt Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 <blockquote> <p><strong>Basic Guidelines</strong>: Nature based subject matter. Please, declare captive subjects. Keep your image at/under 700 pixels on the long axis for in-line viewing and try to keep file size under 300kb. Note that this includes photos hosted off-site at Flicker, Photobucket, your own site, etc. Feel free to link your image to a larger version. <strong><em>In the strictest sense, nature photography should not include hand of man elements. Please refrain from images with obvious buildings or large man made structures like roads, fences, walls. Minimize man made features and keep the focus on nature. </em></strong><br> <strong><em> </em></strong><br> <strong><em>Are you new to this thread? We post one image per week. For more details on guidelines please <a href="/nature-photography-forum/00cgtY">read this</a> helpful information. </em></strong></p> </blockquote> <p>Greetings,<br> Grab your coffee and lets go for a ride in the way back machine. We don't need to go far, only to the late 20th century. You won't look out of place in your clothes and those of you familiar with film will be right at home. In the year long salute to U.S. national parks, lets visit one of the grandest, and the first. Let's go to Yellowstone.</p> <p>But what year to visit? We all want to see grand vistas in a pristine condition. Regardless of the season, the place captures the imagination.. Everything about it seems to exist on a grand scale. Big vistas, big animals, a rich history, long roads to get there, and often huge crowds once we arrive. We've saved for a long time to be in this place. People travel from around the globe to experience the wonders here. Has anyone ever been disappointed?</p> <p>Let's set the way back machine to 1988. That year the park changed and all that anyone could see would be altered. Nature ran it's course and had its way in the conifer forests of the Rocky Mountains. 1988 was a year of fire in Yellowstone and much of the park went up in flames. It started in June, involved natural and man made fires, and didn't end until September with rain and snow.</p> <p>It wasn't just one fire, but many that eventually joined together. Conditions were ripe and winds drove the fire through the landscape. In the end, 1.2 million acres burned in the region. Of that, 793,880 acres burned in the park, about 36% of the total acreage, according to the park service. The following year record numbers of visitors returned, and brought their cameras. The scientists came to study and watch as nature went about the business of renewal in an ever changing landscape where fire is necessary.</p> <p>Jump forward a few years to 1994. I wasn't much of a photographer, but I had a cool job as the field cook for a university ecology class in Yellowstone. For a week I drove my truck/ chuck wagon around the park and met up with the class. Otherwise, my trusty Nikon EM was a good companion, even thought I didn't know much about using it. The opener this week is a different view of Yellowstone, a view of charred woodlands and patches of green. The image is 8 scanned color film negatives stitched together, but otherwise untouched. Yes, I stood there and thought "this will work, snap, snap, snap". A bigger version is <a href="/photo/18248608&size=lg">here</a>.</p> <p>On this solstice lets celebrate the changes that nature brings about, in it's own way, on its own terms, at it's own pace. Happy Monday in Nature.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnfarrar Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 <p>Not so dramatic, but still restoration. Most of our woodlands are in a very poor state, notably due to overgrazing, so they have poor regeneration and little good understorey. We're lucky in having a small wood very near our house with a sustained history of no grazing - so it's in good condition, there is abundant regeneration, and it supports wonderful ferns....like this <em>Dryopteris</em></p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Bortnick Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 <p>Aster</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill J Boyd Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 <p><strong>Roadrunner</strong> was in my backyard a few days ago.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User_2019667 Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 <p>Tesel backlit by the early morning sunlight.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordonjb Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 <p>Edwin's lovely photo of anti-crepuscular rays from last week inspired me to dig up this image from a few years back, of the only time I have ever seen this phenomenon. I had my tripod set up facing east waiting for the sunrise when I turned around to catch this view. The tripod and I did a 180 degree rotation and this is the photo I got. The effect was short lived and was gone before I finished my coffee.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin Barkdoll Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 <p>Here's another National Park: huckleberry at dawn in Acadia National Park. BTW, ANP is celebrating 100 years this year. Woo-hoo!</p><div></div> Test Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin Barkdoll Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 <p>Gordon - very dramatic! I've never seen the rays so prominent. I love it!<br> Yet another example of why one should always look both east and west at sunset.</p> Test Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordan2240 Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 <p>The oceans are certainly always changing.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin Barkdoll Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 <p>Laura - great foresight in 1994 and very nice panorama of Yellowstone. I would be very interested in seeing a repeat panorama from the same location shot today. Any plans for a Yellowstone vacation in the near future?</p> Test Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sallymack Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 <p>Cool job, indeed! Nice panorama, Laura. <br /><br />My photo this week is the wetlands restoration site I've been visiting since 1997. Have I mentioned what a weird place it is?</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
douglas_herr2 Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 <center> <p>female Black-backed Woodpecker, Sierra County California </p> <img src="http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/picidae/picoides/bbwood05.jpg" alt="" /></center> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShunCheung Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 <p>Snowy egret (<I>Egretta thula</I>)</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Currie Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 <p>Wayback is good this week, since I've been busy. I'll only go a little back to last year and present a little spider from Costa Rica. </p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRCrowe Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 <p>This is Yellowstone in 1962. That's a Moose on the little island on the Yellowstone river.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Weishaupt Posted June 20, 2016 Author Share Posted June 20, 2016 <p>Edwin,<br> I always want to return to Yellowstone. I've only been there twice. I'd love to return to that location with more appropriate gear and better skills for the task. Unfortunately, I don't know just where this was taken. If anyone familiar with the park recognizes the profile, I'd love to hear. I have distinct recollection of taking photos in an area with a "Scorched Earth" sign. These negatives are next in line on the strips. That is apparently between Mammoth and Tower, so it might be near there. </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biomed Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 <p>A beetle in the early morning.</p> <center><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/18248680-md.jpg" alt="_MG_0211" width="680" height="453" border="0" /></center> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Eckman Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 <p>And here's a bee in the late morning - I'm very happy to see them around.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkag Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 <p>Alpine Avens from the Austrian/Italian border. I finally got around (2 years late) to tentatively identifying (at least to the genus) everything from that trip - anyone is welcome to offer any corrections!</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miha Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 <p>Hi,<br> mine is not a 'historical picture' albeit an old one (in terms of digital photography).<br> Hope you'll like it anyway. Regards, Miha.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Doo Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 <p>In my brief visit some ten years ago, I was delightfully in awe of Yellowstone's vast, colorful landscape of unique natural phenomena. I tried some panorama as well as limited scopes of abstract designs from the enormity. Here is a snippet of the Mammoth Hot Springs.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShunCheung Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 <p>I have been to Yellowstone only twice also, first when I was in college and then in 1993 with my wife. I recall that back in 1988, my sister in law took her then 13-year-old daughter to Yellowstone, and they saw some of the fire. By 1994, signs of the big fire from a few years earlier were still very visible, e.g. large charred areas.</p> <p>It probably looks different now. Hopefully I'll get to return with a digital camera some day.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidTriplett Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 <p>Yellowstone is one place I never tire of, and to which my wife and I flee as frequently as possible. I find myself ever drawn into the vignettes of extremophile life, as in this image of a hot spring outflow.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User_6667263 Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 <p>Wildflowers in Kings Canyon N.P.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tholte Posted June 20, 2016 Share Posted June 20, 2016 <p>Sunrise last week here in Milwaukee</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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