Plan Ahead! Expect a 30-50 minute delay at the Gros Ventre Roundabout today and for the next four or five days. You won’t want to be stuck in a line of traffic while the pink skies are happening at your destination sunrise spot!.” Note: On Saturday, construction didn’t begin until 7:30 am.
Roads: If you are driving between Jackson and Rock Springs on Highway 191, keep an eye on the Highway Reports. The highway is occasionally closed near Bondourant due to the Roosevelt fire.
Quick Foliage Overview: I am still seeing a mixed bag of conditions. In some areas, it’s over. It’s prime in others like Oxbow Bend, and there are green trees in quite a few places. In other words, Foliage Season is far from over. Across the board, colors haven’t been as vivid this year as in some of the previous years. The photo above was taken yesterday with dark, moody skies.
Nikon D850 and Nikon 24-70mm lens, Handheld. Continue reading "October 2018 Daily Journal for GTNP & JH"
Fall happens—but not all at one time! Fall is more of a chapter within a book than a specific story in the daily newspaper. Colors don’t begin as wave of spender at one end of the valley that slowly advances across the region. The leaves, even within a single species, don’t change colors at one time. Instead, the phenomenon is more like a Jackson Pollock painting. Constantly changing splashes of color “splattered” across the valley occur over a period of about a month. Credit Mother Nature as the artist at this time of the year! Continue reading "Capturing the Last of the Fall Color in Jackson Hole" 
There are 52 weeks in a year. Of the 52, only one of them offers a chance to see bull Moose stripping their velvet. Most photographers like capturing the event, while some, like my wife, shy away from seeing the bloody velvet hanging from their red antlers. Photographing a bull Moose stripping its velvet is actually a tough assignment for a variety of reasons. First, it isn’t that easy to find a bull Moose in a 310,000 park. Second, and more importantly, it’s not easy to find one at the exact moment. A bull can strip the bulk of its velvet in 15 to 30 minutes, but will often have a tassel hanging from the base of the antlers for a while longer.