Let It Snow (but Not Too Much!)

Its been a long time coming to get another post online. Our plans have been thrown out the window for a couple of days...instead of flying from Yellowstone down to Albuquerque in New Mexico on Sunday, our flight from Denver into Albuq. was cancelled so we ended up spending the night in the Denver airport, before catching a flight on Sunday morning from Denver to Los Angeles and then on to Las Vegas, where we picked up a car for the 5 hour drive to the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona, arriving around 10.30pm. This morning the snow has set in again, see attached, and looks likely to continue for a while. We have another night here before moving on when the conditions clear. Quite the adventure!

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Knee Deep in Yellowstone.

Well, I've finally got some wifi access after 4 fantastic days in Yellowstone National Park. This is just a taste, as you may recall I mentioned how I expected to be knee deep photographing the bison, well I got the bison knee deep in this amazing walk-by we witnessed in the equally amazing Lamar Valley, a fantastic winter wonderland. I should be a bit more settled in the next days to get some more images posted, but I guarantee you will be amazed at what I have to post! And the morning I took this the temperature was minus 20 celsius!!

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A Fitting Farewell

A very nice sunrise at Lake Wendouree on Sunday was a fitting farewell before we head off to the USA early Monday morning.......my next post will be something totally different...and a lot colder!

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Saturday Evening at the Lake

I wandered up to Lake Wendouree on Saturday for what turned out to be a very nice sunset. After some threatening weather for most of the afternoon the clouds had built up nicely and just as I got there I caught some great light bursting through, helped along by a couple of ducks drifting by. After that some even better mammatus clouds built up and passed over head. We were teased with a couple of bolts of lightning, though nothing further developed. It was great just sitting there watching it all pass by on a very mild, calm evening.
Hard to believe in a day or 2 we will be standing knee deep in snow shooting (!) bison in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Monday morning we are heading off again, so keep an eye on the blog for some awesome images...

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On The Beach

I made another early morning trip out to west Lake Burrumbeet on Saturday morning. I've been looking for some low lying fogs the last couple of days as we are in a warm spell and quite often the high humidity creates these conditions. This morning it was clear and calm, though still plenty to work with on this side of the lake. These are taken a bit further north of yesterdays location.

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Summers Waning Sunrises

An early start on Friday morning and well before dawn I was waiting on the west side of Lake Burrumbeet for the sunrise. This new location I've been visiting continues to offer plenty, and even with no clouds in sight, the vibrant dawn colours were a fantastic sight. Whilst walking back up the embankment to the car I found this single line spider web that had caught a number of dandelion spores....with the sun behind them it almost looks like a clothes line!  A nice example of being aware of the smaller things around you.

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Mollongghip Meanders

Things were a bit calmer on Thursday evening after the fireworks of the night before. I was out at Mollongghip and found some nice views across the hills, also a cow that felt no embarrassment, and then a dark moody image shooting directly into the sun. Its a very pretty area, and only 25 minutes from Ballarat - well worth a drive around, especially in winter when its a vibrant green.

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