My hearty congratulations to you, Mr. Gourley! Awesome picture! My youngest is interested in photography and has inherited a digital SLR from her grandmother. I had a Minolta XG-1 in my younger days that I took on a few church choir tours and just used it for basic photography. I never was very good at getting the thing in focus quick enough to get many of the shots I wanted. Guess I'll be telling my daughter, "Well, in MY day we had to manually focus a camera. We didn't have none of that fancy auto-focusie thing...."
Like you, I do love landscape photography. I've always had a collection of such pictures that I use for my computer wallpaper. Even got a few of yours in the folder. I've been attached to Yellowstone since I took a Scouting trip out there back in '77. Still have and use the cribbage board I picked up as a souvenir at one of the shops.
Oh, and Bruce, since you have been known to wander Yellowstone quite frequently and state in the associated interview that you've gotten to know various people over the years associated with Yellowstone, I'll just take a shot in the dark here and ask if you happen to be acquainted with the winter caretaker there who has worked in Yellowstone for some 42 years, per the recent CBS Evening News story? That was a really interesting story. It seemed out of time to hear about someone who had literally "stocked up for the winter".
