Emma and I were on the road just a hair past 7:00 this morning to make our last trip to Yellowstone. And what a photographers dream trip it was! In our 170 mile journey, we managed to be in the right spot at the exactly right time for some wonderful wildlife encounters. :) I bet I took around 200 shots today, and all of them were fantastic. The view through my lens finder was all that I could want, and everything was in very sharp focus. We saw a male bison swim across the Yellowstone River right up to us, and then wallow in the dirt and shake off all the water like a dog does.
It is rutting season for the bison now, and we were in the car not five feet from a bellowing bull that was trying to impress the lady at his feet. Then it was on to fantastic pictures of an osprey and a Swainson's hawk. It was just one of those wonderful days where everything is perfect....
Until I got home to download the pictures onto the laptop. I nearly fainted when I noticed that the 8GB memory stick was still in the laptop and not in my camera! Ugh! I almost broke down in tears. That meant that everything I saw today was only etched into my memory, not that of the camera. :( How could I have forgotten to put that memory stick back into the camera? So much for my last great trip into Yellowstone.
So, there are no pictures tonight, and after yesterday's high, I have fallen off my pedestal and am back down to earth. Good thing I didn't buy that cape yet. :)
Now the big question is, do I make another effort tomorrow to return and try again? I had left the next three days in my schedule for packing up, but I may not cross this way again. What do you think?
Thanks for stopping by....talk to you later, Judy
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