October 6 - Additional Trip Pictures

I've worked through a few more of my 3200+ images that I took on the camera club trip. I don't expect that I'll find many more that I really like. If I get 1 out of 100 images that I like, I think I've done pretty good (it sure is a good thing I'm shooting digital!)

During our first evening in Grand Teton National Park, we ended up at Jackson lake to see a sunset. There wasn't much of one, but I did like this mountain silhouette.


This is from Wind River Lake near our lodge. These alpine meadows in this area are just incredible. Peaceful near dusk, and vividly colored when lit by the sun.


One of the mountains visible from Signal Mountain. It had been cloudy that day, and I really liked the half-hidden mountain peak.


A panographic image (more than one image stitched together in this case) of Two Oceans Lake.


Great Fountain Geyser was just a special place when we were there. This is a 20 second exposure from when it was nearly dark.


From Rocky Mountain National Park. There wasn't much color in the sky that night, but with a longer lens you could frame the vibrant bits.


And after the sun was long gone, there were still some very interesting clouds. This is another long exposure when it was nearly dark.


The next morning at Sprague Lake, there were some great reflections in the water. In this case, the reflections were of golden aspens on the mountains.


And a little rock with the same reflections.

Grand Teton National Park

On our trip, we stayed at Togwotee Mountain Lodge and on the nearby Togwotee pass, there's a nice little lake called Wind River Lake. It was a nice lake to walk around and photograph.


Though we intermingled drives to the Tetons with drives to Yellowstone, our first destination was the Tetons. When you're in front of these fantastic mountains, it's hard to imagine photographing anything else. Here are two views from the famous Oxbow Bend, and the third is a famous barn with a very cloudy backdrop - I'll try to post another version of this when you can see the mountains behind. All three of these images incorporate multiple photographs - blended seamlessly together in Photoshop.






And this is a quiet little scene from Two Oceans Lake - there was a lot to explore on this little lake and I was glad we made the trip to see it. A moose wondered into the parking lot as we were leaving along with a local guy with a very long lens (600mm) trying to find the bear he had glimpsed. We didn't find the bear, but it was fun to talk to a true animal photographer.

September 16 - Grand Teton National Park

The camera club has just returned from a trip to the Tetons, Yellowstone and Rocky Mountain National Park. The days were long, but went by very quickly - and there was a lot of driving! Anyway, over the next few days/weeks, I'll be adding pictures from the trip that I think turned out OK.

Here's one from Jackson Lake near the Coulter Bay boat dock . Half of the group decided to eat, but the rest of us were transfixed by the moon descending over the horizon. This is from a 13 minute exposure and my last of the evening - I wish I could have made a multi-hour exposure here, but we just didn't have the time.