Brian Creek, Photographer

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Award Winning Photographer. Naturalist/ Writer/ Instructor/ Guide/ Environmentalist/ Eclectic Pagan/ Iconoclast. Yellowstone, Tetons, The World > Visit website for Prints & Bespoke Yellowstone Photo Safaris! 🦬 www.briancreek.photography

Milky Way over the Tetons
The Western Larch is a PNW tree that grows on the west side of the northern Rockies from Glacier National Park, up through Banff. If you are in the neighborhood in early October, GO!
Photography is easy. Just master light, timing, composition, editing, gear, color, storytelling, posing, in your own crushing self-doubt.
This morning, buried among the usual emails, I found a truly delightful surprise — the judges at Exposure One Awards have nominated not one, but three of my photographs for the People's Vote Award in their One Shot Photo Contest. The first of my three nominated images — Sunrise & Moonset Over the Teton Range at the precise threshold between moonset and sunrise. Two photos were stitched into one panoramic photograph. Voting is open through May 24, and you can vote once per day — I'd be deeply grateful for your support. And if this photograph speaks to you, I'd be equally grateful if you'd share it. I'm not an influencer with a vast following — just a photographer who loves this work — and every share genuinely makes a difference. https://exposureoneawards.com/people-vote-award/sunrise-moonset-over-the-teton-range
Yellowstone's Grand Prismatic Spring, from a helicopter overhead, is just art reflecting an even more beautiful reality. Nature humbles us daily, doesn't she? :)
And it isn't just the Endangered Species Act; they hate all of the bedrock environmental laws enacted in the 1970s in response to things like the Santa Barbara Oil Spill, people dying from breathing big city air, and lifeless, toxic rivers literally catching fire. Anything that might cause them to have to alter their behavior or lose one cent of profit is the target of all their vitriol. And they wear "asshole" as a badge of honor.
A mom elk with her yearling and calf of the year eating our landscaping, Gardiner, MT
Yes, we are open and operating in the park during the govt shutdown! Visit our website to check our open dates and book your Yellowstone Adventure! https://briancreek.photography/photo-safaris-wildlife-tours-yellowstone/
Shot on iPhone 13 Pro
Yellowstone River near Alum Creek on a blustery, late summer morning. 😍
Yellowstone, Sunrise On the Blacktail Plateau. 9/14/25
Old Faithful, September 15, 2025
Poland is a fantastic and entertaining speaker, don't miss this if you are in the neighborhood!
World Trade Center Memorial
Near sunset, Capitol Reef National Park in Southern Utah. Canon R5, Irix 30mm f/1.4 prime lens.
The Roosevelt Arch at the north entrance to Yellowstone National Park in Gardiner, Montana, with the hills and mountains behind obscured by the smoke of wildfires far away.
Gorgeous location near Jönköping, Sweden. July 2022. Did I have a tripod? No, no I did not have a tripod. Still, I'm diggin' the water droplets from the cascades frozen in mid-air looking like - um, some really cool sparkly things!
Pogo comic created for the first Earth Day in 1970. We are all members of the global tribe of humans, we all share the blame for what the world is becoming ecologically and politically by allowing a few of our fellow humans to run roughshod over the rights and well-being of others for their own enrichment. We are giving away our agency.
Goodnight, Moon!
Vote!
Sunrise, Moonset On the Teton Range An early morning treat while moseying around Grand Teton National Park!
Horses being moved to the outfitter's ranch for their summer jobs.
Macs, amirite?
Even though Yellowstone National Park can get bitterly cold (the record low is 69 below zero Fahrenheit), American bison (Bison bison), are supremely well adapted to living in near arctic conditions. They are, after all, a descendant of the extinct ancient bison (Bison antiquus), a large herbivore that was common in North America during the late Pleistocene. When snow falls on their fur it doesn't even melt, they are so well insulated. They are wicked fast, have enormous personal space bubbles, and are always on alert for danger, as many naive tourists to Yellowstone National Park have learned!
This!
I spent 10 days in Yosemite national Park in May 2023, the year of record snow melt and floods throughout the valley. This lake is normally a meadow with the Merced River flowing through it, but everything was flooded that spring in the river decided to take over the meadow, resulting in a beautiful reflecting pond!
I spent 10 days in Yosemite national Park in May 2023, the year of record snow melt and floods throughout the valley. One of the photos that was on my list was dogwood blossoms and the Merced River, account of my love of photographs of those subjects Ansel Adams made many years ago. Finally, on my last day there I found these right after a rainstorm had swept through the valley and was still covering the sun, providing wonderful light for this sort of photography. You can see clouds from the storm reflected in the river on the left side. The light from the sun reflecting off of the opposite valley wall is on the right.
I love the Tetons, and I particularly love table Mountain, even though she is a smaller peak, usually overshadowed by her big sisters. On this winter day, I was walking my golden retriever and trying out a new camera when I saw this. Of course I didn't have a tripod or any filters with me, so I shot this at an 80th of a second and the RAW image that resulted was terribly underexposed. I've been working trying to get a usable print out of this for a few years now and I think I'm closing in on it!
Ansel Adams Biography
Almost sunset at Grand Prismatic Spring. Yellowstone NP.
Hindostan Falls, White River, Indiana
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Early summer sunset over Yellowstone Lake, the largest high-elevation lake in North America!
Comment here through Aug 4!!
Ansel Adams, decades ago, on the threats to public lands.
July Sunset over Midway Geyser Basin, Yellowstone.
Yellowstone screen closure alert
A chilly morning along the Yellowstone River. Fog lifts and mixes with steam from thermal features, the sun just breaking through . I love this place!
A chilly morning along the Yellowstone River. Fog lifts and mixes with steam from thermal features, geese honk back and forth, and steam vents whooshing in the back ground. I love this place!
A fly fisher in Yellowstone at sunset during a PED or BWO hatch that was just warming up!
Momma grizzly and her two chonky cubs grazing beside the road, late evening, 9 June 2025. iPhone shot from truck window, they were way too close (15 yards +/-) to leave the vehicle!
Yellowstone's Grand Prismatic Spring from the overlook
I spent many, many days driving the roads of Yellowstone National Park during the Covid-19 epidemic shutdown of 2020, after the park finally opened on 18 May. I'm sure this little guy is much more impressive now than it is in late summer, but it was still a looker!