Road Trip (With Video!)
Sometimes you just need a road trip.
Yellowstone and Grand Teton
Here are a few wildlife photos from a quick trip to the Yellowstone and Grand Teton areas a few weeks ago. Unlike my trip in June, it was a slow trip for wildlife. I’ve never seen weather quite like this in the fall – about 75 degrees during the day and not even freezing at night – very warm for the last week of September. I think the relatively hot weather contributed to the scarcity of the wildlife. I’ve been in colder weather in Yellowstone in mid-summer before. On the other hand, the weather felt wonderful, and it was great to be there. As you can see I did get some interesting shots of an elk and a moose exhibiting flehmening behavior, which I’ve never photographed before.
I also took some night sky photos and some scenics at Schwabacher’s Landing to stitch together into panos. I’ll publish those images in a future post once I get them processed.
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The Best Trip Ever
Since before it was established as a national park Yellowstone has been a region impossible to describe without invoking superlatives. The earliest recorded reports of the area, sent east by traders and mountain men, seemed so outlandish that they were dismissed as tall tales. Since then tens of millions have traveled from every part of the globe to experience for themselves the unique curiosities and observe the renowned wildlife found there. Inevitably at the end of their stay, each visitor is left searching for adequate words to describe the wonders they’ve witnessed.
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Ninety Seconds of Light
“Bad weather always looks worse through a window.” – Tom Lehrer. Read More »
Wolves
For our annual autumn trip this year we decided to mix things up a little and go looking for wolves in Yellowstone instead of taking our traditional excursion to Grand Teton. We hoped to substitute and abundance of wildlife sightings for the sweeping landscapes of Grand Teton this year.
Anybody that has visited the Lamar Valley of Yellowstone National Park would have a hard time missing the crowd of wolf observers reliably found there. Eager searchers disburse along the highway equipped with two-way radios and powerful spotting scopes, quickly to converge on a spot when word goes out of a sighting. Read More »
Oh Canada!
I haven’t found the time to do a write-up of our summer trip to Glacier National Park and Canada. I love the Canadian Rockies, and wish I had another two weeks to spend there. But in the absence of a long narrative here are some of the first photos with my new EOS 7D. I have several panoramic shots of Herbert Lake, Tangle Falls, and Chief Mountain that I still need to process and stitch together. But here are some of the other images.
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