Reflections on leaving Yellowstone

Today we left our lovely wooden ranch style home to travel south back to Utah. After having spent a week in Yellowstone and Teton Parks my mind (and camera) is full of amazing images, including mountains, canyons, rivers, wildlife and much much more. 

This cabin was home to Michelle, Sarah, Jay and Bernie.
They shared with Joe, Melinda, Ethan, Hannah, Lexy, Kheng and Scott and Karen

This was the view from the back of their cabin.
The mountains only became visible on Thursday when the weather cleared!

Perhaps my favourite photo is that of a double rainbow reflected in a waterfall. Travelling south the scenery continues and after visiting Golden Spike, a museum situated where the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroads met in 1869 we continue our journey south spending time to stop at Salt Lake.

Robyn kept us entertained all the way.

We had a seven hour road trip ahead of us as we travelled south through Idaho
and the mountains never left us all the way down to Utah.

Ideas of how to create an artist's book and which images to use enter my mind. There are so many that I think I could fill a library but will have to restrict it to one or at the most two books! The structure of the book is only one aspect. This will need to be sympathetic to my ideas and themes of my research and explorations into the wilds. The harsh realities of the first explorers is something I have been conscious of during our travels. Other themes include the natural as opposed to the managed environment. Wildlife, flora and fauna which is also both managed and wild. I will have to do some hard thinking this weekend to choose which images and which format to use before deciding which medium or print type to explore.

Sue Leach