'Someone else is in charge of the lighting'; Yellowstone stars in new stamp

CANYON VILLAGE - Photographer Kenneth Keifer nearly missed both shots.

But persistence paid off and serendipity kissed the Mooresville, Indiana resident, enabling him to get stunning photographs of two landmark waterfalls. His pictures of the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park and Harrison Wright Falls in Ricketts Glen State Park, Pennsylvania, appear on two new U.S. Postal Service stamps.

Sixteen years ago, Keifer visited Yellowstone bent on capturing the Lower Falls from Artist's Point only to be stymied. Maintenance work had closed the classic vantage on the s...