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Jun
19
2013
Greetings from Jackson Lake Lodge
One of the most attractive things about living in Salt Lake City is the proximity to magic landscape – easily in the ranks of the best combo of midi-urban, good-airport, close-to-good-stuff on the planet.
Quick trip to Grand Teton NP… Friday afternoon departure, Sunday afternoon return. The image above was shot from the balcony of a 2nd-floor suite at Jackson Lake Lodge.
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iP5 pano recorded at 21:00 MDT on June 7, 2913, using the iPhone5 and the iPhone Autostitch App.
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May
22
2013
Where Sheep Fly
There is magic in The Stone, there can be no doubt. Drive around a bit and you’ll see something remarkable around every corner.
Amongst the most popular, but less-seen of the Park fauna are the Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis). A majestic animal, proud, strong, and especially elusive. We know of only three locats in The Stone where Bighorns can reliably be observed.
Okay, right, not reliably – nothing whatsoever in The Stone is reliable – at best, sometimes, perhaps occasionally (if you are lucky…you have good Karma, right?) .
We found this beautiful creature on the west side of the Grand Loop road, just north of the Yellowstone picnic area, posing in a most fetching manner on a large-ish boulder. For reasons known only to herself, this ewe made a couple of determined steps and launched herself skyward. As if by magic.
We work hard at getting lucky.
Images in this entry were recorded using the Nikon D7100 and the AF-S NIKKOR 600mm f/4G ED VR. 900mm effective (yeah, I’ll write more about this combination later). Exposures were f/8 and 1/1000s, ISO 400. I’ve previously claimed that f/8 was an aperture one-stop too small…I’m rethinking this.
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