Tag Archives: Rebecca Latson Photography

November 25, 2020 · 7:00 am

Looking Past Tomorrow’s Thanksgiving

*A Wild Turkey In Zion National Park (Utah)*

On my next-to-last day in Zion National Park, I happened upon a flock (actually, it’s called a “rafter”) of wild turkeys. I first encountered them along the road through the park and thought that was pretty cool and I was tickled to have seen them then. Then, during a hike where I was crossing the bridge from Sand Bench Trail toward the Court of Patriarchs, I found a flock – er – rafter – of them hanging out around a park maintenance building. I had the best time walking along with them, photographing them. They weren’t the least bit afraid of me and that’s where I learned they can actually fly – enough to get up into a tree, at least. Wild turkeys, for all their grizzled faces, are pretty cool birds to watch, and their feathers are beautiful.

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November 10, 2019 · 10:52 am

Different Weather, Times, Seasons In Yellowstone

Old Faithful during a summer sunrise, Yellowstone National Park

Old Faithful during a chilly, autumn sunrise, Yellowstone National Park

The lower falls of the Yellowstone River on an overcast, snowy day, Yellowstone National Park

The lower falls of the Yellowstone River during a freezing autumn sunrise, Yellowstone National Park

I know I’ve mentioned this before, but I’ll re-mention it in this post. It’s a great idea to take your camera and revisit a favorite site of yours during different seasons, times of day, and weather conditions. You’ll be surprised at how different your composition can look.

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November 9, 2019 · 7:31 am

Solitary Geyser

A morning alone with Solitary Geyser, Yellowstone National Park

This pretty geyser is indeed, solitary, sitting all by itself and located a short hike from either the Upper Geyser Basin boardwalk or on the way up or down the trail from Observation Point. This is one of those geysers that people tampered with way back when they didn’t understand geysers or geology that well. They wanted to use the hot spring water so they put a pipe in it, which lowered the water level several feet and caused the then-hot spring to turn into a geyser that erupted every few minutes. They removed the pipe and the water level rose again, but it continued to be a geyser that now erupts every 5-7 minutes (give or take). It’s not a huge geyser, though. It sort of “burbles” and erupts about 3-4 feet (so the nearby sign says). It was difficult to even see it erupt on that chilly day because of all the steam. I could only tell it was going to erupt by watching for ripples in the water in the far left corner of the geyser, which occurred just before that “burble” of an eruption.

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November 8, 2019 · 8:25 am

Where The Trails Take You Photography

Change is good. It can be for the better and open up new horizons.

I made a change to my living arrangements when I moved from Texas to central Washington, and I decided it was time to make a change to my photography website and my photography blogsite. No more plain old Rebecca Latson Photography.

Announcing:

Where The Trails Take You Photography

The web address to my blog is changed too, although if you still type in rebeccalatsonphotography.me I believe you should be directed to what is now wherethetrailstakeyouphotography.blog

My photo website address is https://www.wherethetrailstakeyou.com/ or you can just click on the image above to be taken to my website.

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October 31, 2019 · 9:46 am

“Leaf Peep For Science” – Searching For Fall Foliage Photos From Acadia National Park

Hey folks, I’m sharing this article about fall foliage photos from the National Parks Traveler. Maybe you can help as Citizen Scientists and send any film-era fall foliage photos you might have taken during visits (pre-2000) to Acadia National Park.

Click on the image above and read this interesting article to find out more.

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October 31, 2019 · 8:55 am

Something Wicked This Way Comes …

Imagine yourself, all alone, walking through a dark forest full of twisting and twisted trees. You know something is lurking out there, watching you. You’ve got to get away, but where do you run that you won’t stumble over twisted tree roots? You know something wicked this way comes for you.

On Halloween, even national park forests, like this one in Olympic National Park along the Sol Duc Falls Trail, can look pretty sinister and spooky, when given a little black & white conversion and some vignetting around the edges.

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October 29, 2019 · 8:59 am

Listening To The Sounds Of Yellowstone

The National Parks Traveler has published my latest article. It’s not the usual still-photography fare, however. This article is about listening … to the sounds of Yellowstone National Park.

To read and listen to this article, click on the image above.

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October 25, 2019 · 11:54 am

Yellowstone Journal

I’m a person who likes a combination of beautiful and useful. I don’t like just a coffee table book because people tend to look at the book then set it down, not paging through it much after that. Instead, I like things such as calendars, journals, post-it notes – stuff upon which you can write while admiring pretty national park photos. As such, I’ve finished my 6″x9″ 108-page Yellowstone Journal, a softcover journal filled with blank, lined pages and gorgeous images (which I captured, of course) of America’s first national park. It’s all ready for your own notes and doodles. Click the image above to be taken to my store and check it out. You can preview the journal (I set it up to show you the pages with images, but you might end up seeing even the blank, lined pages, as well). FYI, the front and back covers, when flattened out, give you an entire image of Morning Glory Pool.

This would makea great gift for yourself, family, friends and colleagues.

P.S. Expect to see more of these journals in the near future, in different sizes and formats.

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October 23, 2019 · 9:13 am

Opalescent Pool And Black Sand Basin Landscape

I first visited Black Sand Basin in Yellowstone National Park during the evening on the previous day from this shot. It was overcast and getting dark and I didn’t even notice this little side area next to the entry drive to the parking lot. I didn’t see this until I visited the next morning, a lovely, sunny day. I’ve been reading: TravelBrains’ “Yellowstone Expedition Guide” and learned this interesting fact: the trees you see here are dead, of course. The bottoms of their trunks are white because they absorbed the hot water in the area, which is filled with silica in solution. That silica comes out of solution and is what has colored those trunk bottoms. It’s the first step in petrification of the trees. Oh, and Black Sand Basin gets it’s name from the black obsidian sand grains in the area. Cool, huh?

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October 21, 2019 · 10:23 am

2020 National Park Photo Calendars

It’s that time of year again, folks. I’ve created three 2020 wall calendars and am working on a fourth, each centered around the national park trips I made over the course of this year. Yes, I know there are a gazillion gorgeous calendars out there. Just add mine to the pile.

What makes my calendars different from others is that many, if not most, of these photos, you’ve seen in some form or another, and you’ve read the story behind each photo, including what I was feeling at the time I captured the shot. Photography is about storytelling, and these calendars tell a story of my national park visits.

If you are interested in seeing what I have produced, click on each image above or on each calendar cover image in the left sidebar of this blog site.

Thanks!

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