The Lamar Valley is my favorite drive in Yellowstone National Park. This visit to the park, however, has been solely devoted to playtime with the grandbabies and helping out with childcare, as our son-in-law has been working out of town for most of our visit- and we haven’t had time to do much else. Today is our last day in Wyoming, so Lonnie, Miles, and I took a quick drive over to the Lamar Valley.
This was a great day for wildlife! Earlier in the day, I had seen my first fox, a fluffy little guy walking across the lawn by the house (alas, no photo). On our drive this afternoon, we saw hundreds of buffalo, including some new babies!
But the highlight of the day happened on our drive back. From the car, I spotted a grizzly bear walking along toward a pull-out, where a ranger and a few others were watching him. This was my first grizzly sighting at Yellowstone (we had seen one at Glacier National Park years ago). We pulled over, and I took MANY shots of him zoomed in at 200 mm. I’ve decided that the next time I take this drive I will bring a tripod and a longer lens for better focus. Wildlife and landscape photography are not my forte.
This is my favorite image (I like the open mouth!)- it is cropped and was overexposed in aperture priority (although I thought it looked OK in camera).
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Wow! The grizzly shot gives me chills. Great shot. I’ll bet Miles was pretty excited, too. I know you cropped it but he looks awfully close. And the exposure looks good to me.
The buffalo shots really give a sense of “where the buffalo roam.”. The composition is great on both. Nice shots for your last day in the wild west
I think your Grizzly shot os great. I never have ny tripod and then wish that I had packed it along. Glad you had a nice trip….best part is always the grandma part. 🙂