- Posted by Max
New Photos: Yellowstone Spring 2020
This may well be the last batch of new photos I publish this year. This gallery features images from my getaway to Yellowstone in early June (which I documented in my usual trip reports). It marked my first time missing Yellowstone in May in fourteen years, but we did arrive on June 1st, and had many great adventures and memorable wildlife
August 3, 202001 - Posted by Max
Comet NEOWISE and Husky Stadium
Comet NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) is making its brief appearance over the northern hemisphere right now, and I finally dragged myself out of the house to try and photograph it. As with the 2017 solar eclipse, I was feeling pretty ambivalent about the whole thing, and didn’t convince myself to do something until pretty late. In its
July 21, 2020 - Posted by Max
Ranking My First Fifty Trips to Yellowstone: #5 – 1
Here we are. My five best trips to Yellowstone National Park, at least according to my current mood and how I feel about what makes for a successful trip. If you want to know exactly what my thought process was when ranking my first fifty visits to the park, check out the first post in this series. If you missed
July 13, 2020 - Posted by Max
Ranking My First Fifty Trips to Yellowstone: #15 – 6
As I honor the 20th anniversary of the Yellowstone trip that ignited my passion for wildlife photography (#29 on this list), I’m progressing through all fifty of my journeys to the park. If we broke the list into tiers, I’d say we’ve reached the “Really Good!” level. These are the trips that either consistently produced good wildlife sightings or photo
July 6, 2020 - Posted by Max
Ranking My First Fifty Trips to Yellowstone: #25 – 16
Welcome back! We’ve entered the top half of my Yellowstone trip rankings. So far in the “Yellowstone 50,” we tackled visits #50 – 36 and #35 – 26. When I compiled my list of park visits and tried to rank them, I found this part of the list to be the most challenging. These are the good but not great adventures, and
June 29, 2020