Paul Kristoff Photography Blog

Saturday, June 10, 2017 I get up early for sunrise.  Now I have to figure out where to go.  I try Mt. Moran but the lighting is not quite right; it really needs to be later when the shadows are less horizontal. I go to Jackson Lake dam to try to get something. I go to Colter Bay Village next. The mother bear and cubs are across a bridge today.  It is drizzly and cloudy but we stop to get pictures.  The cubs are fun to watch; they are climbing trees today. The mother bear and her cubs want to cross the bridge. We are asked to leave our location so they can cross.  It is also cloudy and drizzly anyway so we go back to the cabin and take a nap. An hour or two later we wake up and the sun is out.  We take off to find a moose. First a stop to see the bear situation a few miles from cabin.  The bears have crossed the bridge.  I end up with back lighting on the bears, which is cool but difficult to manage.  We

Friday, June 9, 2017 The first full day at Grand Tetons started with me getting up early and heading out to Schwabacher's Landing.  I was expecting more picture opportunities for such a famous place.  When I arrived there is only one parking spot available. I was all excited that a full moon was setting.  When I get there there is no view of the full moon in the scene, so I ad-lib.  If I would have had the fore though to get the foreground trees in focus. I stop at Oxbow Bend view for reflective landscape pictures Then off to Mt Moran Outlook for some cool wildflower pictures.  The hard part was timing the sun shining between the clouds. I have been looking for quite a while for a landscape with a cool foreground. I go back to the cabin and pick up Vicki.  We head out and within a couple miles of where we are staying there is a bear sighting.  This is a mother grizzly and cubs.  It is