Grand Teton National Park

I’m in Grand Teton National Park. Rumor has it that there are black bears and grizzly bears, but I haven’t seen any yet. The mountains are beautiful. These are the newest mountains in North America. After I left Yosemite National Park, I thought that I was leaving the tall granite mountains behind. There are no foothills leading up to the mountains. There is a vast amount of flatland and then a huge mountain range. Photographing the mountains is pretty easy. Almost all of my pictures were taken at ISO 200, shutter speed of 1/800 and an f-stop of f/7.1. I didn’t have to do very much in Lightroom as far as adjustments. I did do a lot of playing around with my settings in the area called Mormon’s Row. There is an old barn that has the Tetons as a backdrop. I had to make adjustments to get the tone in the wood of the brown barn and the white of the snowcapped Tetons along with the blue sky and puffy clouds. I have gotten some small mammals like ground squirrels, chipmunks and a few birds. I haven’t seen any Bald Eagles or Ospreys. I guess I could take a picture of an osprey when I get home and tell you that it was from Grand Teton, but that would be cheating. I have gotten some good reflections of the mountains off water in ponds, Jackson Lake and the Snake River. When you are driving in the park you must keep an eye out for overlook pullouts. They have a lot of them in this park. I stopped at the Snake River overlook. This is where Ansel Adams took one of his famous pictures of the river snaking its way through the valley floor. He did that in 1942 and got a clear view of the river. Today you can only see portions of the river because of the tree growth near the river. So in this case I couldn’t get a similar image as he did.