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Originally Posted by
Bob Graz 
Wow, what a trip. Beautiful shots. The gold/brown tones and the light in the waterfall shot is stunning.
Thanks, Bob. I dragged my wife out of bed before breakfast to get the dawn light on the canyon for that shot. She's a trooper.
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Originally Posted by
Sam Posten
Love the rim of light on the elk's rack and the way the prairie digs are standing guard
Actually, those are uinta ground squirrels. They are smaller than praire dogs. We were not sure what they were when I took the shots. We asked a park ranger later, who gave us a nice tutorial on them. The squirrels are a fairly rare sight, only living in high elevations and hibernating for 9 months of the year. She said the males would already be in hibernation, so we would have only saw females and their young.
If anyone is interested, there are quite a few more shots
here. I didn't get any great bear shots, but there are some distance grizzly shots. The few closeup shots of black bears didn't turn out that well, as I was trying to shoot from the driver's seat of the car while in a a bear jam. Here are a couple of the distant bear shots (one black bear, one grizzly):
Edited by Scott Merryfield - 7/30/11 at 5:17am
