The Old Faithful Inn, Closed for the Winter Metal Print

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Visiting Yellowstone in the winter requires some long-term planning, but is well worth the effort. It should be on everyone's bucket list.The Old Faithful Inn is a hotel located in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States, with a view of the Old Faithful Geyser. The Inn closes for the winter, so we stayed at the Old Faithful Winter Lodge, next door. The inn is an example of rustic resort architecture, a style also known as National Park Service Rustic. It is one of the few log hotels still standing in the United States, and was the first of the great park lodges of the American west. Initial construction was carried out over the winter of 1903–1904, largely using locally obtained materials including lodgepole pine and rhyolite stone. The structure is the largest log hotel in the world. The Inn a part of the Old Faithful Historic District, is the hotel is registered with the National Trust for Historic Preservation. (source: Wikipedia). The watermark will not appear on any pr...

I love to tell stories. About twenty years ago I had my first freelance travel article accepted by a magazine. Much to my surprise, the magazine expected photos along with words. I had not taken any during the preliminary work for my article. I drove back to the site and took the photos for the article with my little Olympus digital camera. The article was published with those very amateur photos. In time, I bought an Olympus OMD-EM5, a great camera for nature and travel photographers and discovered that I enjoyed telling stories with pictures more than I did with words. The last twenty year have been an incredibly exciting time as resources for photographers have exploded. I have been lucky enough to have some great teachers along the way...