Isa LandryPhotography

A personal collection · Yellowstone

Old Faithful
& the bison

Some places stay with me. Yellowstone is one of them—the steam, the impossible color, and the bison moving through it all like they own the place.

Stay awhile
A bison walking past Old Faithful as it erupts
Old Faithful, with company.

From my camera roll

The photographs
I come back to

Not every favorite has to fit into a neat portfolio. These are the Yellowstone photographs I kept wanting to see together.

01

Steam & sky

Waiting for Old Faithful

The waiting is part of it. Then everything changes at once—the sound, the light, and that enormous white plume against the sky.

Old Faithful erupting against a clear blue sky
Right on time
Sunlit geyser spray filling the frame
Into the light
A white geyser plume rising beneath a blue sky
Steam & sky
Old Faithful rising above a dark tree line
The first rush

02

Among the herds

The ones who own the road

I could photograph bison all day. They can feel still and ancient one second, then completely change the shape of the landscape the next.

A single bison walking beside a Yellowstone road
Taking the long way
A bison walking along a quiet riverbank
Along the water
Three bison crossing a green hillside dotted with purple flowers
Up the hill
A herd of bison gathered in pale sagebrush
All together
Adult bison and calves moving across a sunny hillside
Keeping close
A lone bison standing in the shadow of pine trees
At the tree line

03

The living ground

Color that doesn’t look real

The blues, rusts, golds, and tiny mineral lines feel like another world. I still can’t believe the earth can make color like this.

Orange and blue thermal water steaming beneath a pine forest
Heat haze
Fine mineral channels crossing pale pink ground
Drawn by water
A pale blue thermal pool rimmed with rust-colored mineral
Where the colors meet
A turquoise hot spring set in a green meadow
A little impossible

Back home

There’s more
to see.

Come back to the rest of my work, or send me a note if you’d like to make something together here in Northwest Arkansas.

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