Yellowstone Winter Snow Lodge at Old Faithful. It is the only hotel open in this part of the park in the winter. You can also stay at Mammoth, which is in the north part of the park in the winter where one of the hotels is open up there. This was a timed exposure taken with the full moon. If you notice in the upper right clear part of the sky you can see the constellation Orion in the sky.
Overlooking Ox Bow Bend on the Snake River with Moran Peak of the Grand Tetons mountain range in the background. There is a pair of ravens flying thru the scene that live at the parking lot area. They are evidently supplementing their diet with scraps illegally thrown out by park visitors. When we drove up they quickly flew in.
The classic shot of the Grand Tetons with Ox Bow Bend in the foreground. This is considered one of the "top ten shots" in America by professional photographers in the fall for those three days when the Aspens are fully in their fall blazing colors. In the early morning the sun strikes the trees and the mountains directly and lights the area up perfectly. If conditions are right, the river is glassy smooth and the reflections are perfect. I got the shot about 6 years ago and it was something.
