Park Ranger with Youth

New Visitor Center at Moose, Wyoming
Grand Teton National Park

September 19, 2007 at 8.38am MDT; Pentax K10D; Exposure: 0.033 sec (1/30); Aperture: f/3.5; Focal Length: 18 mm;
ISO Speed: 400

Moose lying down in brush just off short trail
between Maude Noble’s cabin and Menor’s Ferry,
Grand Teton National Park.

This bull moose, along with a cow and a calf, was laying down just off a trail we were walking on. Karen spotted it, and thinking it would be a great picture, got my attention. When I saw it, I figured that we were way too close to it, even though it was laying down, so we left the trail and looped away from it to get back to the trail at a point further down where there was an old barn. As we got back to the trail we saw a young ranger gesturing to us to where she was standing, which was in the direction we were going anyway. The moose had apparently already been reported and, since they were in an area with frequent pedeatrian traffic, rangers just arrived to keep people away from the animals. Though the moose were obviously used to the presence of people, they are still wild animals… and they are big and can move very fast. As well, according to the ranger, some boys had been throwing rocks at the moose the day before.

While we were there, the rangers strung a yellow plastic barrier tape — the kind you see at crime scenes in movies and TV shows — to keep the public at a safe distance from the moose.

This picture was taken from a window inside the old barn.

Naturally dried flowers at Canyonlands National Park

September 23, 2007 at 1.28pm MDT; Pentax K10D; Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250); Aperture: f/9.5; Focal Length: 55 mm;
ISO Speed: 100

I40 Eastbound Rest Area West of Alanreed, Texas

This charcoal grill is in a picnic shelter

September 27, 2007 at 11.20am CDT
Camera: Pentax K10D
Exposure: 0.022 sec (1/45)
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 100

Seven Hollows Trail, Petit Jean State Park, Arkansas

A nice hike

November 17, 2007 at 1.45pm CST
Camera: Pentax K10D
Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/180)
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 120 mm
ISO Speed: 100

Canyonlands National Park, Utah

This is a composite of multiple images created using autostitch

Arches National Park, Utah

This is a composite image using multiple photos, assembled using autostitch

Bolz Conservatory at Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison Wisconsin, USA.

December 22, 2007 at 2.03pm CST
Camera: Pentax K10D
Exposure: 0.022 sec (1/45)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 100

Canyonlands National Park, Utah

September 23, 2007 at 11.42pm CMT

Camera: Pentax K10D
Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/8
Focal Length: 23 mm
ISO Speed: 100

Another Arches National Park composite image stictched from multiple photos

August 24, 2007