Seeing how long production and shipping time is currently taking for the products I sell, I have revised my cut-off day for orders to be received so that they arrive in time for Christmas. As of today, the last day I will accept orders and state they will arrive in time for Christmas is this Friday, December 3rd. I might be able to get an ordered delivered after that date but will not guarantee it. As for the photo above, it was taken in January 2019. Unfortunately, unseasonably warm temperatures have melted away most of the snow we had, which wasn’t much.

A few mornings ago, I had this cool encounter with a little red fox. One of the great things about living where I do is that I never know from day to day what I might see while out and about. Of course, a lot of times I don’t see anything other than the beautiful landscape, but anything is possible. We’re off to a slow start to snow season and while we had an inch or two over the past couple of days, I’m hoping we start to get much more so that we can end the drought we’ve been experiencing. As for the fox, I tried to remain as still as possible. He or she moved by quickly but gave me a few interesting poses. The entire encounter lasted more than a couple of minutes but it certainly made my day.

This image was from my last regular photography trip into Yellowstone National Park for the summer 2021 season. The sky promised some nice color for sunrise but due to layer of low clouds you can see in the bottom of the sky of this image, the colorful sunrise didn’t happen. But the sun did break out and cause the low layer of clouds to turn pink and red while the high clouds were white. This was probably thirty minutes after sunrise and I don’t recall seeing it happen quite like this before. But needless to say, I quickly found a location that showed the brilliant red, white, and blue sky with an interesting foreground.

Before Yellowstone closed for the summer season, I was fortunate enough to see Fountain Geyser erupt. I’ve actually seen it several times this summer but this time it started while I was walking the boardwalk at Fountain Paint Pots with some nice light and it wasn’t completely fogged in. On a previous eruption a week or so earlier, I witnessed Morning’s Thief Geyser erupting to heights of about 30 feet while Fountain was playing, so I added a a bonus photo of it below.

Yellowstone National Park closed for the summer season this past weekend. I took my daughter into the park on Friday and Saturday mornings so the last day that was focused on photography was Thursday. I came across this scene with all the elements lined up perfectly. I opted to stay in my car and shoot from the car window so as not to disturb the animals and to keep them all in pleasant parts of the image.

I can’t believe October is already “last month” but this is an image I shot at the beginning of “last month.” This pronghorn buck was chasing “his” herd of does and I watched to see where they were headed, hoping they would go in front of this stand of aspen. Pronghorn are the fastest land mammal in North America and can reach speeds of up to 60 mph, resulting in the nickname “speed goat.” This guy was moving along pretty fast as I followed him with my lens. He was so fast that I almost missed getting him in front of these aspen and ended with only two shots. This was the first one and the second one had him too far to the left of the frame for my liking.

I normally wouldn’t post holiday order dates this early but with supply chain issues and shortages of aluminum effecting production times, I want to get this information out now. Currently metal prints are taking up to three weeks for production before they are shipped, so my deadline for ordering metal prints to arrive in time for Christmas is November 22th. For all other products the deadline is December 3rd. For orders shipping to locations outside the United States, however, I never guarantee a delivery time as it’s unpredictable how long a package takes to go through customs. The photo above was taken in Yellowstone Park a week or so ago. The light was magical as the steam rising from the Lower Geyser Basin area, and specifically the Fountain Paint Pots trail, was lit up dramatically. I would have hoped to have some bison in the lower middle of the frame but they had moved on by the time this happened.