McFrost

Placed 15^th in the challenge. Tuesday night, 3/19/13, we had a nearly clear sky for the first time since the Comet PanSTARRS became visible here in Cody, Wyoming. That evening I went out northeast of Cody and shot a series of images of the comet setting over Heart Mountain, a limestone butte that dominates the northern skyline of Cody. As twilight diminished, the first quarter moon began to dimly light the landscape.

You might have visited Colorado on your vacation, but this photo is the Grand Teton and Jenny Lake in Grand Teton National Park, WYOMING!

Placed 9^th in the challenge. Somewhere over Colorado, on an afternoon business shuttle between Salt Lake City and Denver. The image was taken with a Canon F-1 and a 24mm f/2.8 lens on Ektachrome 64 slide film. I was sitting well forward of the 737's port wing looking north, and was able to frame out the edges of Plexiglas window with the wide-angle lens. The slide was scanned with a Nikon CoolScan 2000 over a decade ago.

Placed 40^th in the challenge. Sedge Bay, along the eastern shore of Yellowstone Lake between Steamboat Point and Lake Butte (seen in the background.) It's a very rare day when the winds are calm on Yellowstone Lake to allow such a reflection shot.

Really poor job of masking the sky in the reflection, possibly to hide distracting things on the lake bottom. Might violate Processing Rule #3.

Placed 9^th in the challenge. A close-up of the leaves of a Virgina Creeper vine climbing my silver poplar tree in the front yard. Taken with my then-new Canon T2i with the 18-55mm kit lens Weight: Approx. 18.7 oz./530g (CIPA standard, includes battery and memory card.)

Placed 19^th in the challenge. The last light of sunset behind Pilot & Index Peaks in northwest Wyoming, USA.

Placed 22^nd in the challenge. Green River Lake and Square Top Mountain in the Wind River Range of west central Wyoming, USA. If there's no wind, this lake always provides a spectacular mirror image, regardless of the time of day.

I would say this is just after sunRISE. Otherwise, that's the brightest moon lit photo I've ever seen. Nice photo; cropped a little tight.

Placed 33^rd in the challenge. The Big Horn Canyon, looking north from the Devil's Canyon Overlook in the Big Horn Canyon National Recreation Area. The Big Horn River has cut through the uplifted layers of limestone between Lovell, WY and Ft. Smith, MT, USA, leaving cliffs over 1000-feet high in places. This scene is in Montana about 1-mile north of the Wyoming border.

Placed 67^th in the challenge. A small group of bison foraging for green grass on Fountain Flats, not far from the Fountain Paint Pots, in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA. The clouds across the valley kept opening and closing, allowing the late afternoon sun to project beams of light behind the "buffalo."

Placed 24^th in the challenge. A small herd of bison "cropping the verge" along the hot springs of Fountain Flats in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA.

Placed 40^th in the challenge. Ptarmigan Mountain and cottonwood trees in fall color, about 25-miles west of Cody, Wyoming, USA.

I, too, carry a Leatherman (Wave) on my belt. Handiest multi-tool I've ever owned or seen, and I use it several times a day. I feel naked without it.

Actually, this view is looking north-north-east, up Bright Angel Canyon, from Yavapai Point.

Placed 122^nd in the challenge. A lot of people are going to submit images of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, but I live about 90-miles away from there, so I get to see it a lot. This is the first DIGITAL panorama I ever did. It was an overcast spring day shortly after Yellowstone National Park had opened for the season in 2003. I had a borrowed HP point&shoot camera with a 2.1 mega-pixel sensor, and made this pano covering just about 190-degrees.

Placed 39^th in the challenge. The full moon of 2011/12/09 rising behind the most prominent of the McCullough Peaks, a range of badlands hills east of Cody, Wyoming, USA. The setting sun had a very low horizon, so it was putting out a lot of red light. The image is a bit fuzzy because I was using an old FD mirror lens with an EOS adapter; not the sharpest combination!

Placed 5^th in the challenge. The "East Complex Fire" in Yellowstone National Park on August 13, 2003. A herd of buffalo (American Bison) ignores the blaze several miles from their meadow next to Indian Pond, along the north shore of Yelowstone Lake, not far from Fishing Bridge. They were astride the road and had traffic blocked about 45-minutes before the road was closed by the fire. I was the last car that got through that afternoon.

Placed 17^th in the challenge. On a typical sub-zero late winter morning in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA, I witnessed a beautiful example of Galen Rowell's Alpenglow on the Teton Range. The few thin cirrus clouds only enhanced the scene. I took eight different panoramas as the sun rose behind me over about an hour's time; this one is number four. I set up my gear at Teton Point along US Hwy 89 and waited for the show to start.

Placed 31^st in the challenge. Jim Mountain dominates this scene from the Wapiti Valley, 22 miles west of Cody, Wyoming, USA. The mountain is part of the Absaroka Volcanic Field, when layer after layer of lava built up thousands of feet thick. The foothills are layers of volcanic ash and bentonite, probably laid down from successive eruptions of the Yellowstone Hot Spot over the past 10-15 million years.