Yellowstone Country - Autumn, 2008 by Dave Wyman
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Each year around the end of September, I travel with a small group of photographers to "Yellowstone Country." The trip is co-sponsored by the San Diego Natural History Museum. Meeting in Salt Lake City - we were from California, Arizona, New Jersey, and Utah - we drove north along back roads through Utah and Idaho that first day. We photographed where and what we wanted before reaching Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for the night. The next few days saw us in the Tetons and Yellowstone, and we pushed on into Montana twice, staying one night in the small town of Gardiner, and enjoying lunch in the wonderfully remote town of Cook City.


Most photographs were made with the Nikon 18-200mm VR lens. Those of the moose were made with the Tamron 18-270mm lens, the grizzly bear photoraphs were made with a Tokina 400mm lens.


Elk Calf, Autumn Snow

Capture Date: Oct 9, 2007 12:36 AMViews: 61

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Right of Way

Capture Date: Oct 8, 2007 04:55 AMViews: 63

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The Watcher (Beware the Beasts)

Capture Date: Nov 7, 2008 12:50 AMViews: 61

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Crossing the Firehole River

Capture Date: Nov 7, 2008 12:04 AMViews: 61

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Bison (Buffalo) in the Upper Geyser Basin

Capture Date: Nov 6, 2008 11:39 PMViews: 61

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Grouse - Comes with Camouflage

Capture Date: Nov 6, 2008 12:47 AMViews: 61

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Raven

Capture Date: Nov 7, 2008 05:06 AMViews: 63

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Gray Jay

Capture Date: Nov 6, 2008 07:33 AMViews: 62

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Captive Bear, West Yellowstone

After viewing our grizzly in the wild, this bear seemed to pale in comparison. Yet it was an interesting bear - note the claws - from the coast of Alaska, and as such far larger and more powerful than any bear from the interior of that state or any of the other states to the south. For coastal bears can feed on seemingly unlimited quantities of salmon, and those that are the largest of the bears can take the best fishing spots. So size - and the appetite that supports size - are positively evolved traits amongst these beasts, leading to survival, not necessarily of the fittest, but the largest and strongest.

Their brother and sister bears elsewhere don't have the same resources for food, and so size is less a factor in who survives from one year to the next.
Capture Date: Oct 8, 2008 04:24 PMViews: 62

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Griz, Yellowstone

We were probably a little too close with our cameras, from the legal standpoint (100 feet), but the bear was only interested in digging for food, and anyway, if it charged, the odds were in my favor, as I was one of about 30 photographers.
Capture Date: Nov 6, 2008 06:18 AMViews: 62

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Grizzly Bear, Yellowstone

These can be truly ugly creatures.
Capture Date: Nov 6, 2008 06:18 AMViews: 63

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Carved Bear and Flag, Afton, Wyoming

Capture Date: Nov 5, 2008 08:23 AMViews: 61

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Different View of Moose

Capture Date: Oct 10, 2007 12:59 AMViews: 62

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Moose Ready for its Close-up, Mr. DeMille!

Capture Date: Oct 10, 2007 12:58 AMViews: 63

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Moose, Teton Natoinal Park

Capture Date: Oct 10, 2007 01:01 AMViews: 62

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