Hi Jodie ! how i would love to know this place , one of my dreams, nice view and excelent composition !

Beautiful. Been reading about this entire area sitting on top of a huge volcano. Let's hope it stays VERY quiet for a long time:)

What a fantastic vista. Great shot.

Beautiful view...

The pools are a lovely way to "walk" the eyes through this valley. Stunning work.

Such a wonderful scenic view.Wonderful capture Jodie.

Never-ending! Wonderful,Jodie!

Beautiful and placid countryside in this shot, Jodes! Buffalo gals must be out there somewhere. I'd say more but I'm running late today.

This is gorgeous and big.

I assume not an easy shot for a fine photographer; because, although long expanses have a certain poetry that lend themselves to the camera, there's the danger of sameness, monotony, and the 'obvious' (the 'obvious' being the appeal of a low sweeping landscape, which is easy to capture but hard to capture articulately). And everyone sees how beautifully you captured this: It's in their comments. For me, it's no surprise: I remember when I first saw this, I knew from the thumbnail that you'd get this fully. The generous amount of grassland in foreground makes the river all the more apparent; and your pov flattens it so that it becomes a ribbon of light breaking through the grass. Maybe you had no choice (maybe no high place to stand), but you got a gentle sheen in the river and it feels like a painter's stroke washing through the green. You also got variances in the grass itself (yellows, bare spots, etc.). And, as you so often do in your broader landscapes, you capture a lot of activity starting in the middle or background areas, as if things picked up a whole new energy back there. That's wholly right for this part of the country, because that's what these vistas do as you move back into them with your eye: Ie, trees appear, hills appear, and then mountains, etc. But then, the most dramatic part of the shot: the sky. A beautiful sky capture, with blue tones as clear as can be and clarity in the sweeping forms. Another wonderful capture from you, and another teaching vehicle for me & others on how to handle this type of vista...because it's one thing if the vista is dramatic, but another to find music in a vista like this. This takes music in the photographer herself. Beautiful & plaintive, a very fine capture. I took notes...