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Beyond the Trail
Back in one of my favorite places, Grand Teton National Park, no words I can string together seems to adequately describe this awesome place. I was in the area to lead my “Grand Teton in Spring” photography workshop and spent the days leading up to the class location scouting both some of my favorite spots and a few that were new to me.
As I drove the interior park road the beautiful wooden fence that runs for miles along it just seemed to scream out to be photographed, so that’s what I decided to do. Now I know the fence has been photographed before and that’s ok with me, for this particular image I wasn’t trying to re-invent the wheel. I noticed that in a few areas the fence follows small hills and creates short dips that make very interesting leading lines within a potential image and I started looking for the perfect one.  After a bit of looking I found the area in the fence that gave me a nice curve without being too steep and decided to return a bit later when the conditions were better. I finally had my opportunity the morning after the workshop concluded; I woke up at 3:30am and headed out to greet the sunrise. During the previous few days storms had moved through the area bring a real hit-or-miss sense to each sunrise and sunset shoot.  As I drove into the park I could see the top of Grand Teton with only a few clouds in the area, it looked like this morning may be a bit Hit! Because of the scouting I did a few days earlier it didn’t take me long to find the composition I wanted and quickly started my wait for the sun to rise. The morning was beautiful with the dramatic clouds cover the Teton Range making for a wonderful image opportunity, however the skies to the east (where the sun was coming up) were covered in much thicker cloud cover which didn’t allow for much color to show in the sky above the peaks. Taking a moment to re-group I decided that this would be a perfect opportunity for black and white! I started to slightly re-visualize the image for black and white tones and started to create the image. | |||||||
