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The Ultimate Photo trip

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The Ultimate Photo trip

After over ten years of planning a trip out west it has finally come to fruition. My wife Kay and I had started to take this vacation/photo trip over ten years ago and every year it had to be postponed . As I usually do, I started planning the trip and where all we we go and what we could photograph.
We started in Cincinnati Ohio and drove 9663 miles over a 34 day trip, taking over 10,000 photos along the way. Thank God we didn't use film,but all digital. I hate to think how much it would have cost to have had to buy all that film and processing.
I used my Nikon D2X and Nikon D7100, Kay used her Nikon D300 and D100, we have a variety of lens ranging from a wide angle of 12mm to a Nikon VR 300mm f/2.8 for long range and wildlife.

One of the first places we wanted to capture was the Grand Tetons at Oxbow Bend on the Eastern side of the Tetons and timed our leaving to arrive there for a couple of days to catch the August Super Moon. The moon was of course setting over the mountains and not rising so we had to get up quite early to be there to catch the moon as the sun was rising.Photography Prints We had to stay at a little town about 60 miles East of the Jackson Hole Wyoming, which was a real cowboy town from the old west era. We captured many shots of the Tetons from several locations up and down the Snake River as it winds in front of the Tetons. The Oxbow Bend was a favorite.
After we left Mt Moran and the Snake River there at the Tetons we headed north to Yellowstone Park and all the grandieur this wonderful park has to offer. The wildlife there is incredible, most notable is the herds of Bison. Sell Art Online The Yellowstone Falls are a photographers dream ,so easy to get to and magnificent to view from many vantage points. I just wish we had scheduled more time for this great park.