Hey, I’m back!  The trip was fun, but at times it sure did try me.  I guess sometimes your lucky an other’s your not.  I had high expectations of capturing some photographs of wolves and Moose.  Too no avail, I didn’t succeed in that department.  Of course there were other if not most impressive scenery and nature to photograph.  

I spent a lot time searching and waiting where I thought for sure I would find them critters. Many stories were told of seeing them, sometimes not far away from where I had been.  I learned my lesson in that if you move often, those animals you were searching for travel threw the exact same area you happened to be only a few hours earlier.  It wasn’t for lack of trying because in fact I spent more then a fare amount of time just waiting in one place alone in several different area’s. Photographing nature does take patients.  Anyone too tell you otherwise is just dead wrong.  Like I said, there was plenty of opportunities to photograph scenery and that’s exactly what I did.  

Troubles are always to be expected when in the field, but sometimes you just wish things would go right. On the way from one location of Yellowstone to another that I had planned.  Driving down the road, I didn’t have plans to deal with a small creature not on the list to photograph.  That happened to be a big bumble bee.  Packing my gear, getting in the car rolling up the windows somehow he slipped threw and thought he would hitch a ride causing me to panic somewhat.  Not knowing whether I had inadvertently took on board a honey bee that would not be so happy once I started slapping insects on my legs, you can see my dilemma.  Now, I’m sure he had no intention of inflicting any harm.  It was the fact he wanted to use me as a landing pad of sorts. I’m all for mother nature, but I can’t handle being used as a perch for a large bumble bee.  They belong outside with the flowers.   So, I quickly rolled down the window and with a little humility tried to gently push him outside. That didn’t work so well.  I thought it should have obviously. He decided to fly around my head and the car a little more before finely leaving once close enough to the window.  He and I parted ways with a wave from me and a flyby for him.  

The photograph below is from the next stop I had in mind.  Here is a colorful shot from the West Thumb area. One of many photographs taken from the area.  

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