Back Side Of The Tetons Just Before Sunrise

I’m no landscape photographer but I sure enjoyed this view coming down the mountain every morning.

 

1/200, f/7.1, ISO 400, Canon 7D, EF-S 15-85 at 73mm

On my recent camping trip my campsite was in the mountains of Idaho but most of my quest for birds occurred further to the northeast in the Centennial Valley of Montana and surrounding area so I tried to leave camp before dawn. This was my view of the Teton Range as I came down the mountain from my campsite.

Typically I’d stop and soak it all in for a few moments but this time I had to take a few shots. But it wouldn’t last long. I’m looking generally east so in a few minutes when the sun came up it would be so bright over there I often could barely see the mountains.

I’ve made this image larger than I usually do (1100 pixels on the long side vs 900 pixels) so we can appreciate it more.

Ron

 

 

38 Comments

  1. Stunning. Although my mother, raised in a bilingual community, never failed to giggle over the name. 😀

  2. The first time I saw these mountains, they were the back drop for a field full of yellow flowers I had two kids in my rental car….and the mountains were so drop dead beautiful, I drove right off the road, the girls screaming in the back of the car. This is a wonderful view of them and I like the way they are framed by the dark trees and foliage in the foreground….

  3. Simply magnificent.
    Thank you.

  4. Ron, what a beautiful photo. I, for one, take the mountains that surround St. Lake City for granted. I often have to remind myself to enjoy their beauty.

    • Thanks, Alice. I don’t take them for granted but I sure find myself wishing our nasty wintertime air didn’t interfere with our enjoyment of them.

  5. A perfect way to start my morning ❤️
    Have a good day

  6. Everett Sanborn

    That is beautiful Ron. I think one of the most beautiful and photographable items on this amazing earth are the mountains. Mountains at sunrise, sunset,clouds, rain, snow, etc just gorgeous. Thanks for taking a minute to take that shot. Hope your trip was enjoyable.

  7. I am soaking the coolness and calm in from the photo.

  8. So gorgeous it brings tears to my eyes. Happy sigh.

  9. Charlotte Norton

    Beautiful Ron!

    Charlotte

  10. Very nice sweep of trees to frame the mountain range. Don’t know why it’s called the back side; I’d call it the right side for this photo.

  11. Beautiful! They still have snow which is good….. 🙂 Always have to pause and check them out even tho they are familiar… 🙂 Thx for sharing the photo! 🙂 Great White Combine visited yesterday afternoon – pea size to ping pong ball size and wind driven…. 🙁 A mess to clean up for sure BUT no windows/windshields/roof suffering major damage – WHEW! Unless it layed the crops down the damage won’t show for a few. Know some of the grain is “in the boot” and may be in big trouble.. 🙁 Been some years since we’ve had hail that large.

    • Judy, your comment came in on my phone this morning when we were out shooting. I told Mia I just learned something from you. After growing up on the farm there are few “farmer sayings” that I don’t know but I’d never heard Great White Combine applied to hail. Love it.

  12. Wonderful capture of a beautiful view!

  13. What a stunner of a landscape ! It captures that vast expanse of space in a way I’ve not seen before, and the shadowed foreground really sets a “stage” to
    show off the intricate skyline of the Tetons—–what a sight you woke up to each morning ! Thanks for the sharing of such wonderful dawn beauty………

  14. Truly breath-taking! Not having mountains where I grew up and places I’ve lived I never knew that sense of awe one feels. It’s obvious you have never lost that as it sometimes happens when you live with it. Driving from Missoula through Idaho, Utah to Phoenix was something unforgettable. Until you experience driving through it, it’s nearly impossible to understand and vastness and beauty every area of our country has.

  15. Inspiring vista, makes me want to head there right now!
    Ron, where was your stump with the Tanagers? Was it in the treeline that we see in the foreground of the valley, or farther off?
    I really enjoyed your write-up yesterday of your camping trip and the great Tanager portraits, glad you got help with the fuel can, 90 pounds is in the danger zone.
    Cheers

  16. Thank you for sharing this amazing view, I have never been there!

  17. I agree beautiful view!
    Since I’ve only been to Idaho once in my life, how far where you from the lava fields?

  18. Birds hang out it some beautiful places. Don’t they? When I get out of my car at dawn, stretch a bit, listen to the bones popping, I often think it is great to be here and see this even if I do not get a single keeper shot. And I need to do this as often as possible while I am still able to do so. This view goes into the Good category in your previous post.

  19. So beautiful! Thanks Ron

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