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Friday Mystery Photo

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I’m currently on business trip in Seattle and last night after all work was done decided to go for a “little” hike. Someone recommended to me that hike at the Mount Si has pretty awesome views. The thing I didn’t pay attention to was the length of the hike, it is four miles, straight up the mountain. My knees are still hurting. It took me two and half hours to get up there, I just made by around 8PM and had about one hour to chill and observe the scenery before sunset. Seattle was all in the clouds and I could not see it at all, but Mount Rainier was nicely visible. Some photos might be available later, not sure how it looks yet.

Anywho, today is the Friday and we have another photo, not tagged with location till sometime later. Anyone knows where this one is located?

Sunday Update: No one got this one either. This is the second photo from Bozeman Montana. Sounds like not very visited town by any of my readers.

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Yellowstone Wild Life

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On our second day in Yellowstone we decided to go hike at the Mt Washburn. On the way there from the Mammoth Hot Springs we took Blacktail Plateau Drive, it is a none paved road that can be taken at the much lower speed in hopes that some wild life will show up and allow to stop and observe it a bit more freely compare to the main roads at the park. For almost entire drive we didn’t see anything but some great landscape views, until almost the end of it when we spotted black bear in far away distance. He was traveling along side the mountain and we could watch him for about five minutes before he disappeared in the forest.

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Couple minutes later I spotted this guy seating on the top of the tree and took the shot right as he decided to take off in search of better hunting grounds.

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After having a great hike to the top of the Mt Washburn we were going to leave the park and drive to the Bozeman Montana, but before we left the park we had three more quick encounters. Two of them were right on the Grand Loop Road, a few miles before Mammoth Hot Springs. First we saw this scrawny red fox. He was just jogging along side the road, I’m sure it is easier to travel on the road than in that sick brush. Unfortunately,  you can’t just stop or pull over while driving Grand Loop Road, it is very narrow  and while there are some pullouts, they are few and wild life kind of does not care about it.

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Then, suddenly we saw this coyote, same running on the road, looking for something to kill on the side of it. Cute little fella.

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Finally, right before we exited Yellowstone Park at the North Exit we some a bunch of Elk. BTW, if you ever visit Yellowstone and want to see a lot of Elk, then make sure to visit Mammoth Hot Springs, it is infested with them.

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All of the above images are available in high resolution, just click on them.

All Alone

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In Yellowstone we stayed at the Mammoth Hot Springs lodge. Before coming to Yellowstone we thought that Mammoth Hot Springs is very remote and it would be hard to get to any “cool” places in the park. The truth to be told, anywhere you stay at the park is very far from everything else and you will have to drive to get there. Looking at map it doesn’t look too big but distances between major “attractions” are substantial. So the Mammoth Hot Springs was perfect place to stay, as probably would be any other place in the park.

I got up early to get some sunrise shots of the Hot Springs and after first examination this photo is one of my favorites from that morning.  Amazing how those trees are even standing there, must be many years since they were overtaken by it and probably died long time ago, but still standing.

btw, in case you didn’t know, you can click on any of my photos and it will take you to my photo gallery at smugmug and will allow you to see higher resolution image of the photo.

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Grand Teton

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PlacesUnknown.com

I decided to change domain name of my site to http://placesunknown.art, anything that goes to the SillyMonkeyPhoto.com name, you all use to see, will be redirected to the new name, so all your favorites and links should continue to work (well, at least as far as wordpress assertions). I chose that name because I think travel photography is about places that unknown to the majority of the people. Yes, we all know famous landmarks and can recognize many other places, but truth is that most people will never be able to see most of the world and bringing to you famous landmarks and maybe more down the road places is what I’m trying to do. So really, it just the name change of the URL, everything else should stay the same.

Mormon Row

The night before we stayed at Jackson Hole, ate at the Snake River Brewery and drank some nice IPA. We got up early and started making our way up north to the Yellowstone National Park. But first we took Gros Ventre Rd and saw our first buffalo on the trip. It was so exciting to see the first buffalo. I was taking pictures of it from far away. After the first encounter every other buffalo was just like a normal occurrence and we actually ignored most of them unless there were a lot of them and right in front of us. Over the next two weeks it was interesting to observe other cars stopping and the first site of the buffalo, they probably saw their first as well.

From Gros Ventre road we got onto the Mormon Row. I wanted to take some photos of the old barns that I saw before. I was really surprised by how small they are in real life to what I have seen on the photos. The one below is actually not the one that most commonly photographed, but I liked it more and decided to share this one first.

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Friday Mystery Photo

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It seams like it is almost none stop raining on the East coast, but at the same time most of the West part of the country is under sever drought, not just now, but for quite some time. This week I saw some photos in the USA Today from somewhere in Texas, one from 2003, one from this year. In 2003 it showed a lake near some restaurant with bunch of people drinking right next to their big yachts, in the water. This year it showed an empty space, with no drop of water whatsoever.

I don’t think that this part (the photo below) of the country is under as big drought as down in Texas, but I think they are experiencing it too. Right under that big agricultural thingy, which I think does not actually used for its purpose anymore, is an awesome restaurant and brewery where we had some fantastic food and drinks. So what is the name of that restaurant?

btw, in case you were wondering, I took this photo from very far away place, it was taken at 400mm focal length, with Nikon 80-400 lens. This lens costs about $3,000+ if someone wants to own it. I paid a fraction of that to rent it. You can too, check out BorrowLenses on the right side, you might find there something useful as well.

Update: Looks like none of my visitors have been to Bozeman Montana and had a chance to eat at Ale Works.

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