The majestic mountains in the Grand Tetons put me awe, and there were various ways to photograph them. My favorite was with the water in front of them, such as from Jenny Lake. The water was so clean and clear in places and so blue in others. As one who likes to photograph "old things", I was at home shooting the barns and cabins on Mormon Row, and it worked out very well with the Tetons in the background.Though I didn't see as much wildlife as I thought I'd see, what I did see was beautiful. I watched the horses feeding on the range for about an hour. It wasn't clear if they were wild or not, and there was some discussion amongst those of us in the pullout as we watched them. We never did come to a conclusion.
The buffalo were also plentiful, as they grazed in a prairie at the Tetons. In Yellowstone, they were all clustered up in a meadow with most hunkered down on the ground resting.
Yellowstone, loaded with hot springs and geysers, is an explosion of color. The blues in the springs are a stunning light blue that you'd associate with tropical ocean colors and very transparent. The mud pots seemingly danced with heat coming up from under them and forcing them to bubble. The Mammoth Hot Springs offer "other worldly" landscapes. It can't be described - it has to be seen. And the geysers — incredible.
I wasn't able to get everything I wanted to get in Yellowstone, so I will be going back and spending more time just in that park. Of all the national parks in the system I've been to, Yellowstone is the one that has stunned me the most.
You can view some of the images I made in my landscape gallery, some are in my wildlife gallery, others in my water gallery, and still more can be viewed in my Mormon Row gallery.
