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Hayden Valley Day 41
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 After Kate got the spotting scope, we went to Hayden Valley to watch wolves around 8 am. We never saw any, so we went on to do other things. We wanted to see the wolves with Kate’s spotting scope and John’s 800mm lens before we left. The weather forecast…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 37
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 This was a very long day. We left at 8 am and did not make it back home until after 8 pm. We immediately grabbed our shower gear and left again. Finally, we were back in the trailer for the night around 9 pm which would 10 pm central…
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Gull Point Drive Day 39: Part 2
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 It seems like any edge of Yellowstone Lake that is not perfectly round has a name. If the lake bumps out, it is a bay. If the land bumps out, it is a point. Just past Bridge Bay Campground is a two mile stretch of road called Gull Point…
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Grand Prismatic Spring Day 39
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 The plan for today was to get up at 7 am, leave by 8am, and arrive at the Steel Bridge Parking at about 9 am to hike to the Grand Prismatic Spring Overlook and Fairy Falls. John stayed up until about 1 am culling and processing photos and writing…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 38
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 Yes, we can count; we skipped over day 37. John did some reading on the Canon R7 to change settings to improve the focus. There are three shutter settings – mechanical, electronic first curtain, and electronic. That list goes from slowest to fastest, noisiest to quietest, and most vibration…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 35: Part 3
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 This was attempt number two to get decent pictures. The day was still sunny, so the light was decent for pictures on the water. At this point, John realized that the “One-Point Auto-Focus” was not one point. He changed up some of the configurations to turn animal tracking on…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 35: Part 4
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 (If you want to skip the sad camera lament, feel free to skip to the pictures.) Rant This is the tale of the third trip out. This trip was not a complete disaster, but the pictures from the Canon EOS R7 are less often properly focused than the Canon…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 35
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 The big activity of the day was for John to practice with his new camera. The decision was to get up around 7 am and be in the Hayden Valley by 8 am to view the wildlife in the sage brush. Last time, we saw at least 5 Sandhill…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 34
Yellowstone National Park, WY & MT, June 2025 Today’s original plan was to get up at 7 am and go wolf spotting in Hayden Valley. Kate woke up at 6:45 am and saw that it was going to rain. The plan changed and we decided to sleep in instead. At 8 am, we got up…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 33
Yellowstone National Park, June 2025 John and Kate spent the morning and early afternoon sleeping in and getting things done around the trailer. John opened his mail and then started putting his new camera gear together, testing and reading the manual. There are a lot of changes with the new gear. We left around 4:30…