{"id":149,"date":"2010-07-11T22:37:42","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T02:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2010-07-14T22:17:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T02:17:35","slug":"grand-canyon-of-the-yellowstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This next image was taken from Artist Point, one of the most recognizable Yellowstone icons.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been to Yellowstone twice before this trip, but only for a day each time.\u00a0 Artist Point was one of our brief stops along the days&#8217; travels.<\/p>\n<p>Artist Point provides a perfect view of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.\u00a0 However, I have never liked photographing here for several reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The shooting location is relatively confined with very few unique points of view.<\/li>\n<li>There are almost always an enormous number of tour buses and people here.\u00a0 Crowded would be an understatement.<\/li>\n<li>It is very difficult to photograph with sunlight, which happened to be plentiful the first two times I was here.\u00a0 No matter what time of day and angle the sun, it casts very harsh shadows that are difficult to deal with photographically.<\/li>\n<li>Needless to say, it&#8217;s been photographed to death.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We had perfect light on this day, as well as a bit of a moody sky, which I love.\u00a0 It was terribly cold!\u00a0 OK, we&#8217;re here in June but the temperature was around 35F-40F!\u00a0 Geez.\u00a0 And to top it all, Artist Point is on a tall ridge, and the wind was probably 25mph.\u00a0 BUT, there&#8217;s always a silver lining, right?\u00a0 There were no tourists!<\/p>\n<p>Artist Point gives a beautiful vantage point of the canyon and falls, as  you can see.\u00a0 No wonder it is so popular.\u00a0 God provided a wonderful  canvas on this day, and my mind&#8217;s eye was envisioning this in monochrome from the time we arrived.\u00a0 I hope I did it justice!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_151\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-151\" title=\"Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/YNP10_0992-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/YNP10_0992-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/YNP10_0992-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/YNP10_0992.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone from Artist Point<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thanks to Brent, a friend and member of our group, you can visualize my numbness and almost feel the cold wind yourself.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_152\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-152\" title=\"Mark Shooting at Artist Point\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Mark-shooting-Lower-Falls-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Mark-shooting-Lower-Falls-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Mark-shooting-Lower-Falls-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Mark-shooting-Lower-Falls.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brrr, It&#39;s Cold!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This next image was taken from Artist Point, one of the most recognizable Yellowstone icons.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been to Yellowstone twice before this trip, but only for a day each time.\u00a0 Artist Point was one of our brief stops along the days&#8217; travels. Artist Point provides a perfect view of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}