A hell of a place to lose a cow

coscorrosa

I just returned from an awesome two week road trip through Yellowstone/Grand Teton (1.5 weeks), Zion (one night), and Death Valley (3 nights), which is why I've been absent.

But before I even process those photos (it's going to take forever) I figured I should post the last shots of my southwest trip from one night at Bryce Canyon (I forgot to post these originally).

#1: These three guys are right next to Thor's Hammer, so I called them The Nails:



#2:



#3: Thor's Hammer silhouetted by the moon rise.



#4:

Dogdots

What a title -- I kept looking for a photo of a cow lost. I'm so slow

Beautiful photos --

wfeller

Gorgeous shots!

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Awais Yaqub

Haha
Great photos 2nd is my favorite, no pano of that view ?

astockwell

Dogdots wrote:

What a title -- I kept looking for a photo of a cow lost. I'm so slow

Beautiful photos --

Yeah that is what the ranchers said about the place. Nice shots.

canon400d

astockwell wrote:

Yeah that is what the ranchers said about the place. Nice shots.

Excellent shots. I must admit I was looking for the cow too.
Regards
Bob

bryanj87

Nice series. I like the silhouette shot, very cool. I learned that cow reference years ago.

alexf

Nice shots. One of my favorite NPs. I visit when I can.
Yeah, I knew the reference too.

coscorrosa

Awais Yaqub wrote:

Haha
Great photos 2nd is my favorite, no pano of that view ?

Thanks - unfortunately no. This shot was pretty wide, I would have had to do two panos one for the top and another for the bottom, and I have a hard enough time keeping the horizon level with a single pano

This would definitely be a good spot for a pano though.

coscorrosa

Thanks for the comments/feedback everyone. Remember to leave your bovine friends at home next time you go to Bryce Canyon

schmoo

Ron, the last one is breathtaking! There are so many photos of Bryce out there and you took one that is so fresh and new.

dlplumer

Super work as always Ron. Can't wait to see your Yellostone shots.

By the way Ron, next years dgrin 2010 shootout will be Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons. Any chance you might want to go back with us all by then?

Danny

coscorrosa

schmoo wrote:

Ron, the last one is breathtaking! There are so many photos of Bryce out there and you took one that is so fresh and new.

Thanks, that was completely unintended, next time I'll study up so I can get some of the cliche shots too

coscorrosa

dlplumer wrote:

Super work as always Ron. Can't wait to see your Yellostone shots.

By the way Ron, next years dgrin 2010 shootout will be Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons. Any chance you might want to go back with us all by then?

Danny

Sure, it's only a ten hour drive to Yellowstone from Seattle (750 miles or so). What time of year? Early summer (wildflowers, bison/elk calves) or or early autumn (fall colors, elk rut, etc.) are the best.

RBK

wooh... amazing and lovely colors, I would like to see more..

dlplumer

coscorrosa wrote:

Sure, it's only a ten hour drive to Yellowstone from Seattle (750 miles or so). What time of year? Early summer (wildflowers, bison/elk calves) or or early autumn (fall colors, elk rut, etc.) are the best.

October.

coscorrosa

dlplumer wrote:

October.

That might work, it's possible that the colors will peak before that (they didn't this year, peak was around the first of October for the aspens near Oxbow), there was snow the previous few days which was *awesome* especially in Yellowstone. This is definitely a possibility, I look forward to the details.

clemensphoto's

Great series!!!!!