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The famed Yellowstone arch at dawn, built 1872, with the first light on Electric Peak. In situations such as this one should expose for the light on the mountain so as not to lose detail, and then tweak the foreground to show sufficient detail. |
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Winter skies are some of the best, and one just needs some foreground interest. |
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1 of 2: On Travel Images' winter trips to Yellowstone there are spots just north of Yellowstone where my groups have pointed their long lenses at Elk, Pronghorn Antelope and Mule Deer such as this these. It seems that some species aren't aware of their protection inside Yellowstone, but for us photographers we point cameras at them wherever we can find them!
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An old boat shed on the fringes of Yellowstone National Park.
Our photo tours are serendipitous in regard to subjects, so if the light is right . . . . |
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Soft snow on a Lodgepole Pine branch. |
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An 'edge of the fog' image from Mammoth Hot Springs on the north side of Yellowstone.
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Moody mist at Canary Spring, part of the Mammoth Hot Springs terrace in Yellowstone. |
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Algae, hot water and various mineral deposits combine to form weird and wonderful textures and colors at Canary Spring.
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Moody Palette Spring at Mammoth Hot springs.
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Into Yellowstone National Park for close-ups of Bison and more. It's tough going through the snow in the winter, so one often sees Bison using the roads to get about.
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The 'holes' in the snow reveal how the Bison move their heads back and forth to clear the snow and find food. |
This Bison herd had just crossed the road and were heading back into the snowy wilderness. |
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'Us and our shadows' just waiting for spring to arrive. Sometimes it's the simplest of things that make the most successful shots. |
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A Pronghorn Antelope grazing in the Montana section of Yellowstone. |
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Us and our shadows . . . simple, and you might agree, effective. These trees are a remnant of the 1988 fire. |
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Set of 3: A Big Horn Sheep ram in Yellowstone above, and left, another Ram just outside the Park. They graze in three accessible spots, so all you need is a lens in say the 200mm range and longer.The Big Horn below is 'pawing' the snow to get to the food hidden by the snow.
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It looks like an ice close-up, but it's actually falling ice crystals catching the light. There wouldn't be an image without the dark background.
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A Bull Elk with a nice catch-light in the eye. One can't ask for more than that!
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The simple, very simple.
Snow and shadow combine for a pleasant image. |
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A pair Coyote studies:
One howling at right, and the other on the prowl below. I often ponder how the re-introduction of Wolves to the park has impacted them since 1996. Are they prey themselves, or do they benefit from what is left of the wolf kills? Maybe none of the above, or? . . .
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A lone Coyote on the look out for his next morsel near Mammoth in Yellowstone. |
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A rare Red Fox sighting in Yellowstone National Park. |
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| Lower Falls in the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. Not as spectacular as when the water is in full flow, but still a mighty scene nonetheless. |
Another Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone image, but this one, snow on branches, shot against the colorful backdrop of the Canyon walls. |
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At some on every trip I do a session of 'deliberate blur'. There is good and bad blur, and the difference is often a very fine line. In this shot we have new growth coming through among trees that survived the great fires of 1988. |
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Above, a pair of Trumpeter Swans on the Yellowstone River,
and below, it's the reflection that makes a shot such as this.
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Snow and ice-laden Lodgepole Pines in the Yellowstone interior. |
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| Finding 'art' in the snow with shadows and texture. |
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Young Lodgepole pine trees scattered about on a hillside above Gibbon Falls. |
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An Otter surfaces for some cool air. They're more 'visible' in the winter months than the rest of the year in both Parks. |
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Firehole Falls framed by snow-laden Lodgepole pine branches. Having everything in focus makes it a bit busy, but that is alleviated somewhat by the use of a slow shutter speed to achieve a soft water effect.
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In the winter we take the long way round from Gardiner to Jackson as the interior of Yellowstone is closed to road traffic. This in turn leads to additional photo ops in the region of Hebgen and Quake lakes, plus various winter scenes in Idaho
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A long lens composition of Hebgen Lake, Montana, not too far from West Yellowstone when moving from Yellowstone to the Tetons.
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There is a spot on the Madison River, see below, that we frequently see Bald Eagles flying by. So, while shooting the 'Christmas card' landscape one also should be ready with a longer lens on a second camera body. The alternative is to quickly get from landscape mode and mood, and into action mode. There are custom function settings for this, but as I hadn't got them set I did it all manually as fast as I could.
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Then in Idaho, this shot from near Driggs, has only the foreground in Idaho, as the remainder of the shot is in Wyoming.
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The following morning is the first Teton sunrise. This is Mount Moran and Moon as seen from Oxbow Bend.
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Then the wide view a short time later.
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Another of our dawn locations is the Snake river Lookout. Some broken cloud could have given this shot more drama, but one takes what one is given!
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This is a large chunk of the range as seen from the middle of the Jackson Hole valley.
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 A lone Bull Elk forages near the Gros Ventre River in the Tetons, while the two Bull Elk below 'joust' to get in shape for the rut on the National Elk Refuge near Jackson.
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Below, a Coyote oversees a fresh carcass in the Tetons as six other Coyotes, not in view, move in. |
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You can find shots like these quite easily in Alaska, but in Wyoming during the winter it's rare.
I opted for space at left for the bald eagle 'to look into' and focused on the eye. |
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We can't go without the winter perspective of Alan Ladd's 'Shane' cabin now can we?! The mountain is Moran.
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The magnificent Grand Teton peak in cloud, but looking majestic as it juts from the valley floor.
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Grand Teton peak shortly after dawn with all the elements cooperating for a pleasing image, i.e. sunlight, and cold air that induces the fog. |
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| Frosted trees in the Tetons provide a monochromatic moment to be savored. |
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| When Grand Teton National Park was open in the 1920's there were a number of ranches that were allowed to remain. This is the entrance to one, and the gate makes a nice frame for Mount Moran at right. |
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This a Bull Moose, and above the eye you can just make out the base remnant of it's antlers which are dropped every winter, usually in January. |
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Part of the Yellowstone and Tetons photography tour includes a sled ride to photograph Elk on the National Elk Refuge just outside Jackson. This image was spotted close to where we boarded the sled one year. |
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The frost on the young Aspen tree in the foreground stands out because I placed it
against a dark background. The rest is down to cold morning atmospherics and being there!
Shot in Grand Teton National Park.
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OK, so it's overcast and snowing heavily. Are you going to stay in the van or get out and shoot?!
This shot has a nice 'Christmas card' feel to it, and is the reality of changing light and weather.
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Oxbow Bend at sunset to close the day and the gallery.
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Yellowstone + Tetons winter brochure
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