Yellowstone & Grand Teton, September 11th - 14th

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I have long needed to make a trip to the Tetons in early September for the purpose of photographing Moose. I will say that folks who wish to shoot Moose should consider Grand Teton National Park in early and mid September.

I was also able to photograph some small birds and Beaver while in the park.

With warm temperatures Elk are not flooding into the valleys yet and the trees have not gone into full change.

Each morning I had Moose near my tent and got to spend the first few hours of each day with them, then it was a few hours with birds followed by time to enjoy Jackson or rest and relax while waiting for the sun to fall in the sky and bring temperatures back down. One day I was lucky enough to have rain keep the temperatures down and got to shoot a few landscapes.

The fires in the area made the promise of great sunrise landscapes less than the promise of shooting rutting Moose in the nice morning light.

Take a look, I hope you enjoy.

Yellowstone's First Photographer

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The Billings Gazette ran a great little piece on the first photographer on Yellowstone National Park.

Make the jump to read the article and you can listen to an archived interview with him from the link that is above.

Billings Area, September 9th

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Just out for a short test of the minty 500/4.0L IS.
Spot on it appears.

There were some kids playing down by the river, who seemed to be keeping both the Osprey a bit nervous; but the one pass that I got provided a decent chance to play with the 500 and check its AF tracking with the 50D.

Enjoy
Now I am off to the Tetons... I think :)

Fishtail Area, August 30th

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Just a few shots taken near sunset in the rain while heading home from Fishtail Montana.

I was playing with the 400DO, and wanted to see what I could make at 1/25th - 1/40th of a second. A decent shot or two. The 400/4.0DO is a nice lens and if you have the money to justify it and already have the 500/4.0 and or 300/2.8 it is something special. The lens is incredibly light weight and is impressive bare, and takes TC's relatively well. I felt the AF suffered with TC's as did the background blur. But hiking ten plus miles with it was much better than doing the same with the 500/4.0 or even the 300/2.8.

Thanks, CPS, for the opportunity to play with a very nice lens.