This is probably why they call it Antelope Island ... :)

Just north of Salt Lake City, a causeway connects the "mainland" to the largest of 10 islands in the Great Salt Lake - Antelope Island - which I first photographed in March 2009 (the album of those photos is available <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/yourdon/sets/72157615741597414">here</a>. It's the largest of the 10 islands (who knew there were that many?) in the Great Salt Lake and it has a couple of peaks high enough that they had snow on the top when I first drove out to take a look back in March.

It's supposed to be a very picturesque place, with herds of antelope and bison, as well as flowers and lush grass, etc. But my first trip was too early in the season -- literally the second day of spring -- and it was dark and brooding, barren and windswept, with heavy gray clouds scudding overhead. I saw a few mangy bison, but they didn't look very happy, and certainly weren't very impressive... so I took a few pictures, and left.

On a return trip to Salt Lake City in mid-May, I had a couple spare hours at the end of the day, and was lucky enough to drive up to Antelope Island in time to catch the sunset; I even saw a few antelope grazing peacefully in the meadows. It was an entirely different photographic experience, which I've tried to capture here.