During the summer of 1969 I had the opportunity for my first major western field trip, conducting research in Baja California, the California Redwood belt, western Washington, and central and eastern Oregon. I had my old TDC Colorist camera along for the trip and shot some Kodachrome slides among the redwoods. On the way home our party detoured through Yellowstone and, having run out of Kodachrome, I shot at least two rolls of black and white film. I processed these on my return but never did print the pictures because I wasn't into Holmes views at the time. A few years ago, one of the rolls of negatives turned up in the back of my office desk and I decided to scan these "oldies but goodies". The photographs were taken using a TDC Colorist camera using Panatomic-X film. The B&W negatives were processed at the time using a standard roll-film tank. They were scanned (3200 dpi/8-bits) on dedicated film scanner.

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As far as I can remember, not having the time to dig out 38-year old field notebooks, this picture was taken on the Lamar River. If there are any Yellowstone hands out there that think otherwise, let me know! There are several aspects of this scene which are not evident with a 2D photograph. The flat area in the right foreground breaks very steeply down, much farther then you would suspect, into the shrubbery on the floodplain. The near shoreline of the river is also further away then you might otherwise estimate.

As far as I can remember, not having the time to dig out 38-year old field notebooks, this picture was taken on the Lamar River. If there are any Yellowstone hands out there that think otherwise, let me know!

As far as I can remember, not having the time to dig out 38-year old field notebooks, this picture was taken on the Lamar River. If there are any Yellowstone hands out there that think otherwise, let me know!

This, of course, is Old Faithful! Its timing was just a bit off due to earthquake activity at the time and I think this variability is still a factor.

Yet another view of Old Faithful.

A look back down the valley and into the Geyser Basin.