Yellowstone In Winter

by Nigel Turner
Land Of Fire And Ice

In my last article for LuLa I wrote about the delights of shooting in the Utah and Arizona Wilderness during the hot summer months. But what do I do during the winter? I generally spend a good amount of time in the frozen north and Yellowstone in particular.
Yellowstone in Winter is truly a sight to behold for all landscape and wildlife photographers the world over. Gone are the maddening crowds of summer tourists who arrive in their thousands every day, turning one of the worlds oldest national parks into a daily circus with long lines of traffic and tourists that sometimes get far too close to the wildlife and rather daft stuff around the many thermal features.
Winter visitation is a mere fraction and more often that not, the photographer can almost have many of the locations all to themselves, albeit with his fellow traveling companions.

Lodge Pole Pines

Image No.3 Lone Tree.
Around the middle of November the Park Service closes the park to v...