April 2017 Monthly Competition Winners

Location
Yellowstone National Park

Location
Grand Teton National Park

Subject
Red Fox

Location
Yellowstone National Park WY

Description
In deep snow on a cold and very windy morning this red fox was trying to hunt.

Subject
Bison in snow

Location
Yellowstone National Park

Description
Big old Bison pushing through the snow at Yellowstone in the Lamar Valley.

Subject
Great Blue Heron nest building

Location
Lakewood, CO

Description
It was interesting to see how much time the male Great Blue Heron took to choose just the right stick for the nest, before he would fly it back to his sweetie waiting in the nest.

Subject
American White Pelicans

Location
Cherry Creek State Park

Description
I took this during the only time I met Bob, a couple of months before he died.

Subject
Doves

Location
Stonington, Colorado

Description
A pair of doves getting ready to mate.

Subject
A dry thistle flowerhead

Location
Cherry Creek Reservoir

Description
Thistle can have beautifully shaped and proportioned dried flowerhead after they seed

Location
Granby, Co

Subject
Early winter morning

Location
Jackson Hole WY

Description
Zion Narrows

Description
A photo along The Big Thompson River, as if flows through Moraine Park.

Description
A February sunrise at Mesa Arch.

Subject
Tri-colored heron

Location
Wako rookery, Florida

Description
Original touched up in Lightroom and modified in Topaz Impression.

Subject
Otter leaping out of a Tetons world

Location
Yellowstone, Tetons, and computer

Description
The image is a composite of a photo taken at the Tetons and turned into a planet in PS, the Otter was added, it was taken at Yellowstone. The sky was created in PS. The snow around the otter was created in PS by making a brush and changing the settings to randomize it, then cracks in the snow were added using a photo of peeling paint for texture.

Subject
Flamingos In Silhouette

Location
Lake Ndutu, Tanzania

Description
This image was made during my safari to Tanzania every April. Taken at Lake Ndutu.

Subject
3 Bison with Frost covered faces

Location
Yellowstone N.P.

Description
Bison returning from eating grass at the Thermals on a very Cold Morning

Subject
Coyote

Location
Rocky Mountain National Park

Description
This pair of Coyotes and one other killed this Mule Deer in the middle of the road after bringing her all the way down a long steep hill.

Subject
Greater Prairie-Chicken

Location
Wray, Colorado

Description
It was not great light unfortunately and the action was further out than I would have liked but there were a lot of hens on the lek and consequently a lot of fighting.

Subject
The Mittens

Location
Monument Valley

Description
Deep twilight at the Mittens. The brightest "star" on the right is Venus. To the left is the Andromeda Galaxy. This was done while waiting for our guide to go into the valley for sunrise. It is a mosaic with a 35 mm f/1.4 lens.

Subject
Narrows Slot Canyon

Location
Zion National Park, Utah

Description
Walls, rocks and rapids converge to a shaft of sunlight in the Narrows Canyon of Zion National Park, Utah.

Subject
Yucca

Location
White Sands National Monument

Description
Made during my photo tour to White Sands and Bosque every December.

Subject
African Lion

Location
Serengeti, Tanzania

Description
This lioness and two others were resting but the male wanted to mate with her. Suddenly, all three lionesses attacked the male. Unfortunately, it was midday and there was a lot of heat haze so the image was not as sharp as I would have liked so I decided to use Topaz Simplify to turn it into an artistic image.

Description
2 Image composite Sandhill cranes in Bosque.
Underneath image converted to monotone.

Description
Used a Topaz Plug-in (Clean) to generate the effect.