Below are photos that I took while on my road trip where I drove 7,000 miles across the country, through 13 states and visited 6 national parks. I was impressed by the beauty and vastness of the west. I tried to capture that beauty in these photos, however, it is very difficult to capture the grandeur and the scale of the vistas that were presented to me on a daily basis.
Going to the sun highway in Glacier National Park
Badlands National Park, South Dakota
Glacier National Park. Wildflowers were beautiful
View from my cabin of the Emigrant mountains in Emigrant, Montana. I stayed in Emigrant five nights as a base for my daily trips into Yellowstone.
Flathead Lake in Montana. This is the view from my campsite near Polson, Montana
Balancing rocking on a hike around Devils Tower National Park in Wyoming
Emigrant, Wyoming
Buffalo jam in Yellowstone. They were everywhere and in no hurry to get out of the road. The bulls were in rut and I saw some of them sparring off.
Fields behind my cabin in Emigrant, Montana
Geyser Basin in Yellowstone
Near the Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone. The colors were beautiful.
Yellowstone Valley panorama. I stitched several photos together to get this picture. However, it really hard to show the scale and vastness of the valley in such a small picture. Believe me, it was stunning
Waterfall on the Beartooth Highway in northeast Wyoming. I used a telephoto lens to capture this image. It was beautiful.
Heading to the Beartooth Highway just east of Cooke City, Montana. The aspen were in their autumn gold. This was at about 8,000 feet.
Yellowstone Valley
Lake MacDonald, West Glacier at Glacier national park.
The Grand Tetons.
The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone
They were everywhere in Yellowstone
West Glacier. Taken with iPhone and not staged. Just happened to be at the right place at the right time.
Grand Tetons. The sky just lit up right at sunset. It was amazing
Badlands, South Dakota
The milky way at the Grand Tetons. You can see the smoke from the forest fires.
Grand Tetons
Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park
The Flatirons in Boulder, Colorado