Jake Peterson’s Blog

This friendly fellow I found in a turnout. Pretty obvious he was used to getting handouts from other vehicles, but that’s okay he posed long enough.

Well since I don’t have to much time left up here in college and since i haven’t been over there in a while, I thought I’d go over to Yellowstone. It is technically Spring here but with all the snow, it’s hard to tell. With Spring of course the roads get plowed, and wouldn’t you know they plowed them on April 18th. Also with Spring comes new born calf’s. Wasn’t able to get any in the viewfinder but didn’t see a couple. Well I had gone over to the North entrance through Gardiner and found out that the road was open all the way to West Yellowstone and Old Faithful. Canyon is also open but West Thumb isn’t, which was a bummer.

Being that the road was open, i went all the way up to Old Faithful. Along the way back i stopped at Midway Geyser Vents. There just happened to be lots of steam. The color in the vents wasn’t great, not like the color in Biscuit Geyser Vent, but the steam made up for it.

This is Biscuit Basin, an area filled with geothermal vents. A boardwalk goes over the area and takes you pretty close to the vents. Along with the steam and the water comes these great pools of colorful sand and stone. Together it makes a very cool image.

Well I was out today looking for some new places to go shooting. Didn’t find a whole lot of wildlife to shoot, but did manage to find some interesting old farm equipment.

This one particular Prairie Dog happened to be rather photogenic. It posed for over an hour not leaving the top of his mound; while all the other ones I came across quickly squirted away.

Well what do you know, there happened to be a Black-tailed Prairie Dog town just down the road. In fact it was only an hour away and very busy. Of course it is the off season for the park but you are aloud to walk in. A rather large community of Prairie Dogs live in the park. Unfortunately part of it was closed off so I couldn’t get to far into the site. But that wasn’t a problem, the part that was open was enjoyable.