This is the follow up to the Photography is Hard post and, as promised, it has a lot more images than that post had. It probably has more words than I thought it would, but that is part of the learning process for me. It was a worthwhile exercise and I hope it’s enjoyable for you as well.

I think I’ve mentioned before that like a lot of photographers, it’s hard for me to pass up a good tree without pulling out the camera. I also must confess that the same is true about rocks. And to be honest, it’s probably harder to pass up a good rock than a good tree. So today’s post comes from a big rock formation we drove past just south of Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park.

I have to apologize for today’s blog post. I have a couple of rather lengthy posts in the works, but things have not panned out as planned, so they’re not quite ready yet. Instead, you get some thoughts I had after I’d sent Len an image in one of our photo swaps. I decided to look at a series of images made of essentially the same subject over a 35-minute period in Goblin Valley State park. I made other images in-between these, but I kept turning back to this subject because of the incredible light show it was providing.

Delving into some of my other photographs from West Yellowstone I came across some images from my point-and-shoot taken from one of our initial “scouting” trips and became captivated by them. In some ways, they were much better than many of the images I took earlier that day with my “real camera.” That’s as good a reason as any to develop them a bit further.

I did another one of those “pick a date and see what’s there” exercises and while I must admit I was greatly disappointed by what I found (sometimes the photographs aren’t nearly as great as the experience), I forced myself to go back and carefully look at the images. I’m glad I did.