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Yellowstone

 

Images of My Coming Of Age Camping Experience
While Taking Classes From The Yellowstone Institute

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All images of Yellowstone on this page are © Paul E. Evans, all rights reserved. They may be downloaded by individuals for personal use but may not be used for any commercial purposes without express written permission.

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Here are a couple of out-of-place images for which I have no frame of reference. Just can’t quite remember where in the park they are, but they are nice photographs so here they are:

Tower Falls in Yellowstone National Park, showing raindrop splash erosion pillars nearby

This is Tower Falls, although I just can’t quite picture where in the park that is. The cone-like pillars are believed to have been formed by "rainsplash erosion." Apparently not long ago there was a harder caprock at exact locations below which the pilars remained as remanents.

a beautifully developed natural bridge in an unknown location in Yellowstone National Park

This is a breathtaking natural bridge somewhere in Yellowstone National Park; I can’t quite remember exactly where.

In the last few days of my stay in Yellowstone, after I had completed my coursework, I took a 23 mile long day hike to the west of Mammoth Hot Springs, up through the sloping alpine meadows and into the Precambrian mountain ranges. Yellowstone is still a wild place — I did not meet a single other human being during this whole hike. It took me up the slopes of Mount Sepulchre, near Mount Elektra, and then to the south, winding my way back to the west and then north, to arrive back in Mammoth Hot Springs by dark. During the afternoon, I made an unconfirmed sighting of a wolf. This is when I learned the easy way to (usually) tell between a wolf and a coyote. A coyote carries it’s tail at the horizontal or lower, while a wolf carries it at the horizontal or higher. I can also say that it is an awesome feeling to come into a meadow which was full in one corner of absolutely steaming grizzly bear dung. Especially when you are alone. I also came across a blue grouse. I know that’s what it is, because I had taken a course on the Park’s indigenous birds. This grouse literally had never seen a human before and did not know to be afraid of me. I was five feet away from it, and we just were frozen there, carrying on a little silent conversation for over five minutes…. A truly spiritual moment for me!

a photo looking down the lower, eastern slopes of Mount Sepulchre, to the west of Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park

This photograph (above) looks down the eastern slopes of Mt. Sepulchre, towards Mammoth Hot Springs.

A sunlight-dappled glade on the eastern slopes of Mt. Sepulchre, west of Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park

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This is the glade, about halfway up Mount Sepulchre, where I saw the blue grouse. Of course, when you’re in a situation like that, you aren’t thinking about the camera. I was just transfixed. The grouse just looked at me…. and never seemed intimidated or scared. Eventually he just sauntered (or flew, I can’t remember), off into the woods, but not really in fright!

A view to the northeast from near the top of Mt. Sepulchre, west of Mammoth Hot Springs, looking off towards Table Mountain

Above is a view from further up Mount Sepulchre, looking off towards the northeast. You can see, in the center of the distance, a blocky, slanted mass that has snow on it (mid July), which is Table Mountain.

The rocky crags at the top of Mount Sepulchre, Yellowstone National Park

Here you can see the rocky crags at the summit of Mount Sepulchre. I crossed this and headed south down the other side.

picture of a burning forest fire at Grizzly Lake

This was a forest fire, caused by lightning, near Grizzly Lake. At this time the National Park Service had a controversial policy of allowing naturally caused fires to have a "free burn." This allowed the ecosystem to regenerate naturally, although it made areas unsightly. Here is another such image of the fire at Grizzly Lake. Despite appearances, I was not in too much personal danger.

Yellowstone National Park: A forest fire at Grizzly Lake is allowed to burn freely, allowing the ecosystem to regenerate naturally.

This concludes my photo tour of Yellowstone, which I hope you all enjoyed. * Paul

All images of Yellowstone on this page are © Paul E. Evans, all rights reserved. They may be downloaded by individuals for personal use but may not be used for any commercial purposes without express written permission.

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Photo Restoration


All the images on these two pages about Yellowstone were snapshots kept in an album in my drafty attic since 1976. Moreover, the original processing had been poor and the images never looked right. The photographs were printed on highly textured paper, and that revealed itself on the initial scans. Even when I first got the prints, they were washed out and reddened, "low contrast" images and looked like landscapes from Mars. I believe that I am skilled at restoration of images such as these, and I can prove it. Here is a "before" image of an Arrowleaf Balsamroot flower followed by my restored "after" image:

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a faded, discolored and washed out image of an Arrowleaf Balsamroot plant

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The corrected, restored image of the same Arrowleaf Balsamroot plant photograph

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All images of Yellowstone on this page are © Paul E. Evans, all rights reserved. They may be downloaded by individuals for personal use but may not be used for any commercial purposes without express written permission.

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