Sunrise at Mystic Falls - Canvas, Metal, & Wood

NOTE: Watermarks do not print on the image. It is for online safeguarding only.

This was my first trip ever to Montana and Wyoming and thus my first time on a plane, at a ranch, and my first time in Yellowstone National Park. I will never forget this trip. I will never forget this morning. it was my first waterfall in the park and my first time seeing REAL fall colors. We don't get that here in Alabama.

I look at this from the hike to Mystic Falls and remember how obese I was. I'm still pretty big and working on it but here, I was about sixty pounds heavier. I could barely keep up even on flat trails. This was one of them. But I did it. It was about a mile or mile and a half into the trail - really easy. There was so much to see along the trail that I forgot what was at the end until I rounded the corner and heard the falls and the creek below. Others may call this a river but I call this a creek. To me, a river is at least a hundred yards wide and super deep and muddy. This was gorgeous.

The sun wasn't in a great spot to photograph the falls themselves - way too much light. I didn't have the tools I needed to be able to do it without it looking like trash. But photographing downstream was spectacular and so very vibrant. You can see steam rising up from what I can only assume is a hot spring in the creek.

This image is great on any surface, including canvas and wood, but it would look phenomenal on the Metal (if you're into that sort of surface).