Looking For A Hot Meal

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Looking For A Hot Meal

Artist

Gary Holmes

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An American Pipit (Anthus rubescens) walks carefully through steaming hot water as it looks for food, on the Cleopatra Terrace in Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The shrub beyond the bird did not apparently fare so well. Mammoth Hot Springs is a massive geothermal feature in the northwest corner of Yellowstone National Park. The American Pipit typically summers along the northern Canadian and northwestern US coasts, and the western Rocky Mountains. This bird was out of its summer range a few days before the Autumnal Equinox, most likely migrating south to its wintering grounds along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and Central America.
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Gary Holmes, photographer: I have always loved to photograph nature, landscapes, abstract, and other found objects of interest. Although I have staged single and group portraits and still life photographs, I prefer the challenge of trying to capture the unpredictable spontaneity of things and events as they are occurring. I started with a Kodak Brownie as a child, but entered the world of real photography with a Canon AE-1 in the late 1970's. I have continued to develop my compositional and post-processing skills and have slowly acquired higher quality equipment that is now capable of putting those skills to their best use. I finally became confident enough to begin posting my work online in September 2012, and have successfully sold a number of my photographs on Fine Art America.

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September 27th, 2014

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