DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

Very nice of you to comment, but I have a long ways to go!

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

I could make the trip with a 24-70 and 150-600. I typically bring a 70-200, 200-500, 14-24 and a 35 as well. Besides a heavy tripod, I alway bring a mono with a Wimberley MH-100 Monogimbal...one of the better investments I have made. Jumping out of the car or easily carrying a set-up when hiking makes that head invaluable to me.

If you are interested in a couple short hikes, one to seven miles, holler!

A few taken between mid june and mid July 2019:
The third to last fuzzy and heavily cropped pic was shot from Calcite Springs and across the Yellowstone River canyon at 1200mm. (600mm F4 w/2X) Peregrine Falcons.

The moose was shot June 21...it was snowing.

Family visitors on Beartooth Hiway. Went to Red Lodge for lunch.

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BeachLady Loc: Surfside Beach, SC

Am definitely looking into GypsyGuide! Love your traffic jam!

Roycous

The Bear Tooth Highway is indeed beautiful. However, check the weather first. It can snow there in August.

Roy

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

The last pic above these posts is Beartooth Hiway in early July.

adamsg Loc: Chubbuck, ID

DavidO;
I really enjoy your photos!! They are furthering my interest in another trip to YNP. Living rather close, it has been my joy to visit often: I think this September is a target date. Not having a big telephoto, I am a bit happened in wildlife shote, but am making some decent progress. So, I am anxious to get up there and have another go at it. Thank you for prodding me to do something that has been on my mind. Any suggestions as to locales, etc., would be welcome. VERY NICE WORK!!!

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

Thank you kindly, but those were my wife's shots with the 18-400. We never have big enough lenses for wildlife! A 200-500 or a 150-600 is often more appropriate, but the point of the 18-400 is that it is something that in quite manageable yet provides good flexibility with decent quality for us average shooters. As is often pointed out, the best thing for us to do is to practice. I think that along with the practicing, efforts should be made to learn the capabilities of our equipment, notably the autofocus system.

Note that no matter how long the lens is, it is never quite long enough or produces the desired clarity. Optomize what you are comfortable with!

June 18, 2020

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Mountain Goats on Barronette June 18

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DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

If I lived where you live, you couldn't keep me out of the park! Nice drive on 15 that we've done several times when flying into SLC. We switched to Bozeman because we prefer to stay in Gardiner. The park is getting just too crowded and the demeanor of some is detracting from the enjoyment. The bus crowds are a game changer and we basically stay away from the congested areas or visit them early or late in the day. We spend much of our time in Lamar and the northeast sector. My first visit was in '64, so things have changed!

pdscott353

I wonder if I might know you Dave. I grew up in Lisbon, but lived in Plainfield for 20 years before moving out of state.

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

I am in Plainfield. There is another person with the same name that that lives in Moosup who is a couple years older. I went to Griswold. The confusion was so bad that we both ended up getting unlisted phone numbers. Feel free to PM me.

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

adamsg: I got my threads mixed up and the pics I referenced were not my wife's. There was another thread regarded the 18-400 and I had posted several of her pics taken with it. Tough to get old!

https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-648903-5.html

The pic of my wife is her lining up the mountain goats at a 1,000mm. F4 E with a 1.7X.

pdscott353

Thats Funny, my wife and I both went to Griswold, back in the late 70's.

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

You may be referencing Dan from Canterbury.

PM if you wish, I don't want to hijack the thread. Any more!

adamsg Loc: Chubbuck, ID

I fully agree about the changed nature of YNP. I moved to Idaho in 1999 and have been in the park almost yearly. Busses disgorging hoards of chattering tourists, careless visitors walking into traffic and clogging walkways was enough to make me vow I would only visit after school started. But a lot of the tourists, and the most obnoxious ones at that, are now showing up at times that used to be slower and more comfortable. Some tourists make it discouraging, at times. In late December of 2017, friends and I were enjoying the very different Yellowstone that is winter. In the visitor center, I was waiting on them and looked out a window to see a tourist walking past the warning signs and right up to the vent of Old Faithful. I alerted a ranger who called down a patrol and they nabbed him. Rangers told me that the tourists are getting more and more liable to ignore warning signs and do things that endanger some of the wonderful features, disturb the wildlife and also break the toilet seats in the restrooms. Back some years they put a limit on the number of visitors in Yosemite. I don't know if it worked, but sometimes YNP makes me wish they would put a limit on the tour busses and their contents. I will go back, but explore just the places you mention, having found them to be less crowded and more congenial for quiet observation and photography.

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

I have a friend in Gardiner who can prove well over 120,000 miles in Yellowstone over a period of 19 years. He claims, this year being an exception, that instead of busy season being from mid June through Labor day, it begins when the park opens until October. I

I will skip first hand knowledge of rude and flagrant behavior.

Learn that camera and enjoy!