Monday, 09 June 2008

• USA Road trip 2008 - Day 3 (2 of 2) - Yellowstone National park

  Day 3 - Yellow Stone 2
  

  Trip duration: 15 days (May 9th to 23rd)
  Total distance: 9000km/5560miles

  
  

  
  Continuing on with day three, this is Tower falls in Yellowstone National Park, taken with the 45mm tilt shift lens

  Liquidy tower crumbles and falls
  Liquidy power of might and awe
  Liquidy drops of purity raw
  Lquidy liquid called Tower Falls

  
  Near Tower Falls there was a huge gathering of people and cars, because of this mother bear and her 2 cubs!

  Searching, sniffing, finding
  Digging, smelling, hoping
  Seeing, touching, munching
  Chewing, eating, living

  The bear didn't really care about people around her, but some park wardens were there to keep people away from it anyway.

  Closer and closer
  We're not afraid
  Clearer and clearer
  We surveyed
  Nearer and Nearer
  We've both strayed
  
  "that's close enough" goes the park warden
  "okay, okay! :P
  

   

  I actually found these photographers with their various 300-800mm lens more interesting to look at than the bears. I've never seen so many people with huge lenses all gathered at the same place before.

  Haul around a telescope
  Hunting
  Hungrily searching
  For a gimpse, a shadow, an ear, a nose, ANYTHING
  "baby bear, come out so we could capture you
  baby bear, come out so we could make money off of you!"

  nothing wrong with making $ off pics, obviously, I mean, if I spent $5000 to $20000 on ONE lens I'd probably be like them too...
  

  
  A close up look of the mother bear

   
  While everyone's looking at the bears, I thought the cliff side right behind me was so very interesting. Sometimes, when there are too many interesting things to look at, we ignore something we normally consider remarkable. Which is a shame.

   

  
  Out in the distance, far enough away that I've had 5 people ask me "Can you see what those white specks are with your camera?" Mountain goats enjoying their time on the cliff side.

  Living dangerously
  On the edge of destiny
  Is it pure insanity?
  Or merely genes and biology
  Living life dangerously
  Living life instinctively

  
  The rain was about to fall, and it didn't seem too excited about the prospect of being soaked.

  A house, a shelter they lack
  Only a coat of fur on their backs
  Living freely has its drawbacks
  Roaming freely in Bison packs

  
  Death of one self frees our soul
  Death is merely one story told
  My dead body now home of a million mold
  Life of an individual just one of the stories told...

  
  A magpie standing on an Elk

  
  searching for ticks and insects to eat

  Don't seem like a very yummy diet

  Crackers seems better :)

  
  A beautiful natural staircase

  Stairs to heaven?
  Stairs for no one
  Stairs for demons?
  Stairs, for no one

  
  On the way out of the park I saw more Bisons, this time with babies!

  Sometimes, I can't help but think about why we generally find mammal babies more cute than say, insect babies. I think, the closer we are to the same evolutionary branch of life, the more our brains are wired the same way, so the more likely it is we find something adorable or cute.

  Just a random thought.

  
  They seem to have no fear of cars, in fact, they treat them as invisible objects...

  Are you sick of Bison pictures yet?
  I am, sorta... :P They are cool but, geez, there's just so many of them in the park

  Bear with me
  No, bison with me for a bit more :P

   
  Madison geyshers

  Cloudy, windy, chilly, smelly, and I was the ONLY one there. I guess you have to be a photographer to brave the wind just to see some frigging holes on the ground blowing steam...

  Yellow Funnel Spring

  Bubbling soup, smells kind of like rotting tomato

   

  So much death and steam and smells, and a lot of warning signs about staying on the pathways so you don't sink through the thin crusts onto boiling hot water... I was contemplating about walking off the evelavated pathway to get a better shot of one of the geyshers, but then I thought better of it :P

  
  Awesome colors in some of these hotsprings

  
  A natural hot water fountain
  A smell of something rotten
  A beautiful jade in the mountains
  

  On the way out of the park, a group of Bisons just taking it easy on the road. I did say sorry about Bison pictures... I promise you won't see them again (just a couple more on the next batch of pics, I PROMISE)

  Slow and steady through the wind
  Tough life makes us thickly skinned
  Our features, our stories, of where we've been
  Shapes our body, from within

  
  The end of this post
  The beginning of another life

  Next up: Day 4 of the trip, Yellowstone, Old Faithful, Teton National Park, Bear Lake, and Salt Lake City

  Go back to previous road trip entries....
  Day 1: Montana
  Day 2: West Yellowstone
  Day 3: Yellowstone National Park 1
  Day 3: Yellowstone National Park 2
  Day 4: Yellowstone/Salt Lake City
  Day 5: Salt Lake City
  Day 5: Arches National Park
  Day 5: Canyonlands National Park
  Day 6: Capitol Reefs National Park
  Day 6: Bryce Canyon National Park
  Day 7: Cedar Breaks National Monument / Zion National Park
  Day 7: Nevada desert and Death Valley
  Day 8: Central California and Giant Sequoia National Monument
  Day 8: Monterey California sunset
  Day 9: San Francisco Sunrise panoramas and wallpaper
  Day 9: San Francisco downtown Part 1 of 2
  Day 9: San Francisco downtown Part 2 of 2
  Day 10: Alcatraz, San Francisco
  Day 11: California Coastal Redwoods
  Day 11: Northern California Coasts
  Day 12: Oregon and Washington
  Day 12: Wayne's house
  Day 13: Pike Place Market, Seattle
  Day 13: Vancouver sunset and night shots
  Day 14: Interior BC and Squilax Hostel
  Day 15: Suqilax Hostel and Alberta

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