UPDATE: Photos below

While watching the waterfall from a viewpoint we witnessed a good portion of the frozen section of the waterfall break free. This was really a great and memorable moment!

For photos I mostly focused on the colors and textures. Later on in the day MacNeal and I went out and did some night shots. Being out in the park by Old Faithful at midnight is an experience I will never forget. All you hear are geysers going off and the occasional animal calling. I will never forget this night!

Pictures will be uploaded later…..

Today we toured many parts. We saw many different geysers, mud pots, and other odd geological features of the park many with beautiful vistas.

During our trip we stopped at a warming hut to eat lunch and spoke with the local wildlife management staff. They told us about a new carcass just down the way from the warming hut. After we ate we headed out to take a look. We saw a coyote come in (in a picture below) to feed off of it. After about 15 minutes of watching we decided to leave. On the way out we heard about a wolf sighting in the area along the tree line close to the carcass. So we made a quick stop to check it out. Macneal spotted a single wolf in the distance. I got a few shots of him (see below). This was a young wolf in a pack of 8. Apparently he stays behind. This is a wolf pack that is brand new to the park. One that they knew nothing about.

So we had a very exciting day!

Today we cross country skied, so most of the day was taken up doing that. I did get some good shots of 3 elk bedding down, and a few nice frozen waterfalls.

BTW, this was my first time to ever ski. So I am pretty sore. I am guessing the 60 pounds backup with all of my gear didn’t help me out much. Oh and I envy the photographer I met this morning. He had a 600mm lens with him and got some great shots of a wolf this morning. I am still crossing my fingers on getting a wolf shot.
UPDATE:
We are inside the park close to Old Faithful, still no internet connection but cell is much better. So I have uploaded pictures below

When meeting with potential clients I think the device will come in handy.

1) I can have the client look at my different galleries. I can do this already with a netbook and I do, but it often times becomes a pain. The netbook is more bulky and just doesn’t look as good.

2) I can have the customer view my pricing in a nice format and I am hoping that someone will come up with a app that allows a customer to sign a document. If this happens they can sign right there and I email them a copy. I can do part of this with a netbook.

3) It just looks cool.  And in the marketing world this really helps. I much rather hand this to a client to check out my work then a netbook that may crash or go slow. The demos we have seen show it as an instant on device that runs apps quickly. I have had slideshows crash on me, and various other issues with my netbook. Normally I hate closed source and things like that but I see the point here with apps that are verified.  Apple having the control in this situation works and eliminates frustration and other issues.

4) I like the idea of being able to sit on the couch and look up things online, or check email. Again I can do this with my netbook but its not the most comfortable thing in the world. Only time will tell if the IPad will be better here.

Now the things I do not like, and these are obvious.

1) No Flash – I am not sure how Apple plans to revolutionize the world with a “internet device” that doesn’t have Flash. Even Linux has plugins for this…

2) No multitasking – This isn’t a huge show stopper for me because I plan to use my IPad for only a few things, but I know this is a show stopper for most. Why can’t I listen to music and write a document? Does apply really want people to use two different devices for this?

3) No USB – I would of loved to be able to hook this up to a external drive. So it looks like my netbook will be going with me on photoshoots instead of this. Yeah 64Gigs is a lot but when I am in Yellowstone for 7 days and using a 5D MKII and 7D I expect to shoot a ton of images in RAW which will more and likely go past 64Gigs.

Things I don’t care about.

1) No camera – to me this is completely useless. I have no desire to video chat or take pictures with this. I have my pro cameras to take pictures.

2) No OSX – I love OSX, but this device is meant to be fast and simple.  I have a computer at home to edit pictures and do other things.

Anyway thats my take on it all. I see myself buying one unless someone announces a better device. I really think Apple will correct the multi-task issues before its released…and not having Flash will probably get fixed as well. If they don’t they are going to get a ton of calls. Yes HTML5 will solve this in the long run, but right now Flash is king of the hill for some of the most popular things out there. I hated Flash when it came out and still hate it, but so many things use it so we have to live with it right now.

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