Crawfish Bridge Yellowstone               click to enlarge

This is one of my favorite stops whenever I enter Yellowstone. It’s right inside the park not very far from the South Entrance gate. There is a small trail that leads down to the river and ends where the river flows over a steep cliff face creating Crawfish falls.

The area and the falls are not very big and it is an intimate setting that doesn’t get much traffic. Once while I was there the conditions were such, it being high noon, that a beam of sunlight came straight down to illuminate the mist at the edge of the falls and cast a gorgeous rainbow across the ravine.

I always stop and check to see if that will occur again but so far it hasn’t. So that untaken image joins all the others in my “Pictures I Didn’t Take” portfolio. Unfortunately that portfolio is stored somewhere in the temporal lobe of my tattered and battered brain, which is not the safest place, but I can still access it as long as the hippocampus cooperates. There are too many images in that portfolio, and of course they’re all the best I’ve never taken, without flaws, perfectly composed and exposed and although they’re all crisp and sharp right now, I see a few in the background that are starting to fade.

Perhaps the cosmos will smile on me one more time and I’ll get to move that image from the “Pictures I Didn’t Take” portfolio to the “Yeah I got It” one. Wish me luck.