MacNeil Lyons Images
Picture Of The Week Page - 2012
Here you will find a collection of pictures that have been posted on the home page of this website throughout the year
of 2012. Follow one of the links to previous 'Pictures of the Year' pages using the navigation bar above!  

Not all of these pictures are necessarily 'marketable' images. They are more of a way for you as the guest to see new and
possibly exciting looks into what the photographer is seeing and or doing week by week.

If there are any images that you would like to know more about or possibly purchase, please do not hesitate to contact
MacNeil at macneillyonsimages@gmail.com




Bison Contrasts, Lamar Valley, Yellowstone N.P.,
WY
January 13, 2012
My first installment of the 2012 Pic o' the Week!
With less snowpack on the Northern Range, there is
more forage for bison this year, than in times past...  
This images shows a group of cows and their calves
making their way towards the Lamar River across the
wind blown grasslands.
I changed the levels slightly on this digital image and
pulled up the contrast a bit to create the stark
difference in black and white colors.  
Golden Eagle - Copyright MacNeil Lyons Images


A Golden Moment, Lamar Valley, Yellowstone N.P.,
WY
January 22, 2012
Anticipating the flight of this large golden eagle is
what helped me capture this frame.  I watched as this
eagle swooped up from the Lamar River with a
Goldeneye drake in its talons.  It landed in the sage
covered hillside near the road and for 20 minutes I
watched it feed!  As it finished the meal, I hoped for
it to fly towards me... I was able to capture this
unique moment when it lifted off the snow and became
airborne with a full stomach & crop (the storage area
of the bird's esophagus).
Agate Female Wolf - Copyright MacNeil Lyons Images




Agate Female Wolf, Little America, Yellowstone
N.P., WY
January 31, 2012
As the 2012 wolf mating season begins, Northern
Range wolf packs are moving on the landscape a bit
more throughout the daylight hours.  This is a female
wolf from the Agate pack.  Her father, 641M, was
recently killed by another pack from the south of her
territory. She is now running with, a near white wolf,
471F, her un-collared sister who has a black coat and
as of January 31, 2012 - a new male wolf who was
scent marking on top of the alpha female 471... It is
speculative as to where he came from, possibly a
dispersing male from the Mollies pack - the pack who
recently killed her father 641M...
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   



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