Stories, photographs, travel notes, and safari reflections from Doug & Marcy

Grand Teton National Park Winter Shoot 2022

Kelly Warm Spring In Grand Teton National Park, Kelly Warm Spring is located along East Upper Gros Ventre Road about a quarter-mile from East Boundary Road.   The very short story behind KWS begins in 1925 when the area was known as Mud Spring.  During that year, a huge landslide (the largest in U.S. history) […]

grizzly 399 and bear jams

Traveling north of sixty … Grizzly 399 was born 25 years ago in the Pilgrim Creek Area of Grand Teton National Park and is older than usual for a grizzly bear. She was given her name as a research number by the Yellowstone Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team. I understand that this particular grizzly is […]

Many are chilled but few are frozen

A National Park all to Ourserlves

Traveling on the north side of 60 … It was about fourteen months ago that I watched  YouTube videos of photographer Thomas Heaton and friends describing their trip to the Canadian Rockies for winter photography.  Thomas’s enthusiasm is infectious and I longed to visit some of the places he photographed, but I just couldn’t get […]

TETONS DAY TEN – BARN IMAGE

This is a bit of a bait-and-switch because I will talk more about wildlife than barns.   Our recent obsession has been trying to capture the image of a fox leaping in the air to pounce on prey hidden in the sagebrush and deep snow.  All we needed to do was find a hungry fox roaming […]

BEST OF THE TETONS

Marcy was researching the walking distance to the famous Moulton Barns and came across Mike Jackson’s Best of the Tetons Photo Tours website (https://bestofthetetonsphototours.com).  We gave Mike a call and decided to book a day with him.   I wish I had to words to describe how delighted we were with Mike and his services.   Sure, […]

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