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Image of the Week: Fallen Tree in the Creek, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

We often go out shooting with a preconceived photograph in mind. We know the subject and conditions we want, it's just a matter of setting the camera in the right place and waiting for the sun and weather to create the light and atmosphere we seek.

It's a time-tested technique, and it sometimes pays off handsomely. But, if we stick to rigidly to "The Plan", we miss out on other photographic opportunities that coalesce and dissipate, literally right under our noses.

This week's image would have passed me by had I not looked down while waiting for one of those preconceived images to appear. I was in Grand Teton National Park waiting for the morning clouds to part and reveal that much-photographed mountain range that we know so well from calendars, books, and postcards. My idea wouldn't have brought anything new to the table, but it was stuck in my head and I was set on capturing it. Thankfully, the weather didn't do what I wanted and I photographed this fallen tree instead.

As I always say, flexibility is the key.

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Technical Data

Fallen Tree in the Creek, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming was photographed with a Tachihara 4x5 Field Camera and a Schneider 150mm ƒ/5.6 Symmar-S lens on Kodak TMax 400 (TMY). The exposure was 1/15 second at ƒ/32.

Other Images of the Week

Moonrise and Abandoned Trailers, Anza-Borrego Desert, California UVM Mallory, Morgan Horse Farm, Weybridge, Vermont, Palladium Print Abandoned Cabin, Anza-Borrego Desert, California Melissa and Parker, Columbia, South Carolina Old Stone Row in Winter, Middlebury, Vermont Worth Mountain Ski Lift in a Snowstorm, Middlebury College Snow Bowl, Green Mountains, Vermont Farmer and Pilot Ed Peet, Cornwall, Vermont Birches, Middlebury, Vermont Mountain Palm Springs, Anza-Borrego Desert, California
Bullseye, Citronelle, Alabama Lunging UVM Orlando, Morgan Horse Farm, Weybridge, Vermont Barns IV, Middlebury, Vermont Fallen Tree in the Creek, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming Blacksmith Lee Beckwith, Weybridge, Vermont Snow Angel, Middlebury, Vermont Slack Line, Middlebury, Vermont Coffee Splash Barns III, Middlebury, Vermont
Beulah in the Carrizo Badlands, Anza-Borrego Desert, California Chapel of the Transfiguration, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming Cross-Country Runner Alexandra Krieg, Middlebury, Vermont Horse Bath, Morgan Horse Farm, Weybridge, Vermont Whitney, Citronelle, Alabama The North Window from Turret Arch, Arches National Park, Utah Jeff, Middlebury College, Vermont Hostas II, Middlebury, Vermont Hikers in Coyote Gulch I, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah
Ocotillo Shadow, Abandoned Cabin, Anza-Borrego State Park, California Moonlit Palms, Anza-Borrego State Park, California Park Avenue, Arches National Park, Utah Ashton and Whitney, Citronelle, Alabama Steven Halladay Road III Fall colors and ivy-covered wall, Middlebury College, Vermont Maple Tree, Middlebury, Vermont Jesse Hamner at Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone NP
Aon Center from Millenium Park, Chicago Mountain Biking I Boulders II, Canyonlands National Park, Utah Hosta Leaves Joe The Pour Skylar

Fallen Tree in the Creek, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. Click on image to view larger.

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Fallen Tree in the Creek, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming is available as an 11"x14" archival pigment print, matted to fit an 16"x20" frame. Each print is signed by the photographer and is accompanied by a display, care, and conservation document detailing the process behind the photograph.
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