About the photo: Mountain Bluebird

Last year I was trying to come up with where I wanted to go on vacation. As I was talking to my parents about it, my mom mentioned how she always wanted to see Yellowstone National Park. I decided that I would take her so she could check it off her bucket list. I had been to Yellowstone before in 2018 and absolutely loved the wildlife and geothermal features of the park so of course I was more than happy to go back again. After a couple months of planning, it was time for our trip. The day was June 4th and we departed on our five hour flight into Salt Lake City. We landed and hopped into our rental car where we drove another five hours up to West Yellowstone to our hotel at the White Buffalo.

 

Canon R5 with Canon 100-500mm Lens f/7.1 1/500 ISO 2000

After getting settled and getting some dinner, we had to make our way into the park to get a little taste even if it was for only a couple hours. It was overcast with spells of rain on the way into the park. While driving along the West Entrance Road we saw our first bison of the trip. We stopped on the shoulder and took it in for a minute before heading further into the park. We made our way to Madison Junction where we decided to head south. We pulled into the Firehole Canyon Road to drive the one way road and check out the views. We spent a minute or two at Firehole Falls before heading back out to the main road. We headed a little further south as the the rain picked up and the sky grew darker.

We pulled into Fountain Flat Drive and drove to the parking lot at the end of the road. There was a bison that I was trying to photograph in the distance when this beautiful mountain bluebird caught my eye. He kept flying around and wouldn’t set still as I had trouble keeping up with where he flew to. As I was about to give up and leave to go back to our hotel, he landed on this beautiful broken tree. I stepped out of our car and fired off a handful of shots before he flew away to not be seen again.

I love how this photo turned out. The pose of the bluebird is nice with a nice side profile shot and him being on the top of the broken tree. The cooler colors of the bird and background contrast nicely with the warm tones of the burnt broken tree. The thing that really puts this photo over the top for me is the rain streaks I was able to capture even with a fast shutter speed.

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