Posts in Category: Rocky Mountains
Yellowstone! Mountain Goat
Mountain Goat: Yellowstone National Park, September 2024 — Though we made two attempts on the Beartooth Highway were people were seeing Goats close, this shot from high on the rim above the Madison River was as close to a Mountain Goat as we got…and this is a 1mp crop from the full 26mp Sony sensor. It amazes me that it is even this good considering the distance (876 yards by my friend’s rangefinder), the light (the mountain side was in shadow), and the extreme crop needed to make the Goat big enough to see. 🙂 Mountain Goats love this kind of terrain…these little shelves in the sheer rock faces of the the volcanic mountains of Yellowstone and the Rocky Mountains in general. I hope to see one close up one day. Sony a6700 with the Tamron 50-400 Di iii VC zoom at 600mm equivalent. Program mode with my bird and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator.
6/23/2011: Rocky Mountain Hazy Majesty
I am spending a few days at the foot of Rocky Mountains near Denver Colorado (or near the Denver Airport, which is not quite the same thing). So close and yet so far! If I walk out between the hotels to the edge of the development, I can see the sweep of the southern Rockies behind the haze over the city…a haze so deep it almost swallows the foothills. For this shot, I moved back and used the long end of the zoom to compress the image and frame the high peaks, so the snow fields float mysteriously over the landscape, challenging our perception.
Nikon Coolpix P500 at 466mm equivalent field of view, f5.7 @ 1/1000th @ ISO 160. Program with Active-D Lighting and Vivid Image Optimization.
Processed in Lightroom for Clarity and Sharpness. Cropped slightly from the bottom for composition.