Shades of Day . . . by Cody Redmon
Taken on a beautifully lit day in Yellowstone National Park, this image is the pinnacle of my minimalist landscape work. There’s an old saying that if you stare at something long enough you’ll begin to see what you want to. This scene, however, jumped out and knocked me over. I watched the light play through the ravines for nearly 30 minutes, captivated by the subtleties of tone and form.
Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley, called the Serengeti of North America, is home to a wide variety of wildlife, a teeming river and innumerable scenes such as this one. Because the valley is not along the main loop through the Park’s interior it tends to get a bit less traffic. As the only maintained roadway during the winter season, it leads to Cooke City and Silver Gate, MT - two clusters of living at the end of a dead end highway. Beyond is the beautiful and famous Beartooth Highway…
