Wildlife, landscape and weather photography
A bit of Old West meets the new west as a bison strolls along the plains with the Mile High City and the Rocky Mountains in the background.
I’ve taken hundreds of pictures of the bison in front of Denver like this but every time I just get excited. Such a cool scene and one that helps me to remember why I love living in the Centennial State.
One of the things I was most looking forward to photographing this past weekend were the four new baby #bison. While I did get that chance, the mamas were keen on keeping their distance so I never got a close look at them. Nevertheless, seeing the new red dogs was fun and I hope to get a closer look here soon.
I’ve taken many pictures of this scene before and I just never tire of it. It is such a privilege to live here in Colorado and viewing this is a great reminder of just how good we have it, even in these uncertain times.
The last couple of weeks have brought unseasonably cold conditions to the Colorado Front Range and with it, some snow. During a recent storm, the bison opted to just lie low and wait it out, as this big boy was doing. Kind of a shelter-in-place for the animal world, much like we humans are going through now.
While this image was taken just a couple of weeks ago, you could totally imagine this being 200 years ago. The undisturbed grasses of the plains, the snow-capped Rocky Mountains and bison grazing freely, unhindered and unharmed by man.
Of course over the past 200 years we did a lot of harm to the land and to the animals that call it home. We are slowly learning and working to repair that damage, an example of that is within this image.
Once driven to the brink of extinction, bison have made a fantastic recovery and land such as that at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge that we had poisoned is being restored to its original state. There is still have work to do but we are making strides and for that I am thankful.
This big fella definitely was taking a big whiff of the women.
Taken a couple of weeks ago, my photo outing wasn’t particularly eventful that day. Wildlife was not very active and overcast skies made for somewhat dreary pics.
I spent a good bit of the time with the bison herd as they were close to the road and at least providing some entertainment. This big bull was one of the main features and he seemed to always find himself surrounded by the cows. Not a bad situation for him I reckon!
These two provided some fun entertainment this past Sunday. They were somewhat young so not particularly impressive in size but they did do a good bit of sparring. All I can hear is my mom saying, “You’ll poke your eye out with that thing!” 😀
Ah, yes, this is Colorado and a great image for Tatanka Tuesday!
A fresh blanket of snow, the bison herd tromping through the fresh white stuff and those gorgeous Rocky Mountains in the background. I love being able to see scenes like this!
The previous day saw a decent little snowstorm move through and in its wake, we experienced a gorgeous – but cold – day on the Front Range. The herd was moving to new grazing grounds and the bright white snow really helped to light up their brown, winter coats
Every now and then I snap a picture that just kind of “speaks to me” more than others. This is one of those. Watching this massive bison bull stand strong, alone, against the onslaught of yet another Colorado snowstorm was pretty amazing. The scene and the message I took from it struck me.
This was one rambunctious bison cow to say the least.
Taken this past Saturday in between snow storms, she was enjoying the break from the snow and bounding along through the fresh white stuff. It was a ton of fun to watch her as she seemed to revel in playing.
It makes a nice batch of images for Tatanka Tuesday.
