by Skip Cohen
It's my favorite day of the week...Throwback Thursday! While I posted this image many years ago, it's a classic and deserves to be shared again. Take some time looking at who's in the group. You should find a whole bunch of familiar characters, now "old-timers," including yours truly. For ten years, every year, usually in February, a group of photographers headed to Yellowstone with plenty of camera gear for three days of winter creativity and a whole lot of laughter! What started with just four of us, Duncan MacNab, Chris Kent, Bob Thompson, and me, became a decade of annual trips each winter with a good number of leaders from the photographic industry. On one trip, I think the one above, Duncan MacNab, who organized the trip every year, towed a gas grill on runners to Two Top. The Two Top Loop is one of the most famous snowmobile trails in America. It's 28 miles long and has spectacular views. Plus, the snow blows across the trees, forming snow/ice sculptures that look like something out of Hollywood. But just the view for our group wasn't enough. At the top, around 8,000 feet elevation, Duncan fired up the grill for cheeseburgers—even topped with grilled onion if you wanted. Imagine being at the top of a snow-covered mountain, buried in the silence of winter and below-zero temperatures, smelling burgers coming off a grill. Now and then, another group would come snowmobiling by and do a double-take at twenty+ people at a barbecue! One year, it was so cold that the Pepsi I was drinking turned to slush within minutes. You had to drink very carefully to avoid resembling the kid in Christmas Story with his tongue stuck to the flagpole. But there was good news—the Twinkies, loaded with preservatives, NEVER froze! While the fun of Throwback Thursday is in the images you find, it's a great marketing tool. Use throwback images to remind your readers/followers of the importance of photography and capturing those special memories. This is the perfect time of year to highlight old portraits and start planting the seed for an updated family portrait in the Spring.
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Robert Thompson
1/30/2025 11:50:53 am
I remember that "cold" winter. It was something like minus 54 degrees. If you wanted to take photographs with an automatic camera you had to remove the battery immediately after taking the picture and put in a shirt pocket close to your body heat before it froze up. And it was almost impossible to focus your lenses because the graphite was turning to ice inside the lens. And I have never, and will never, had another Twinkie since then.
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