Your Best Shot

Do you have a particularly good image from Greater Yellowstone? This winter, we launch a new feature on the website and in The Greater Yellowstone Report. In each issue, the Report will publish a new photo, taken by a GYC member, that reflects the photographer’s love for the ecosystem. Photos will be chosen by our communications staff, who will alert the winners by email. (Note: Winners will be required to sign a release form authorizing publication and confirming the authorship of the photo).

All current members of GYC are invited to participate! Send us your favorite images (limit: two per member per issue) of the lands, wildlife, waters or people of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem with a short note describing the shot and why it is special to you. We’ll be back in touch!

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Your Best Shot was launched in our Winter 2007 issue with a photo by Wyoming member Kathy Lichtendal. Kathy and her husband, Ken, along with their herd of pack llamas and numerous other critters, have been residents of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem for fourteen years. Kathy is a full-time fiber artist who often uses photography as a starting point for her artwork.

Kathy writes: "Several of us were on a short hike down to the confluence of the Lamar and Yellowstone Rivers when, within the matter of a few minutes, we witnessed a herd of elk across the Lamar, then a healthy looking coyote climbing the opposite bank and finally a pronghorn buck and doe which crossed the meadow directly in front of us. The two pronghorn were more interested in the coyote across the river than they were in the admiring group of women. This dismissing backward glance over her shoulder was about the only acknowledgement we received from this beautiful “American Antelope.”