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Hayden Valley Day 35: Part 1
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 Back to the inadequate pictures… These were the first test pictures of the day, after John realized the Canon R7 was not performing as well as he expected. John believes that the only change for these pictures was using the smaller “Spot Auto-focus” instead of the “Single Point Auto-focus”.…
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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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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
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 31: NSFK
Yellowstone National Park, WY, Jun 2025 Just a warning, this post may be classified as Not Safe For Kids (NSFK) and squeamish people. We are staying in a huge wilderness space, everyone has to eat, and not everyone is a vegetarian. Except for a few of the marmots, John took pictures holding the camera instead…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 30
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 We found out that the Natural Bridge Trail was open. They close it in the spring because Bridge Creek has spawning trout that attract bears. Sadly, this means that we missed the spawning trout. We used the trail at Bridge Bay Campground. The trail starts as packed dirt, but…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 29
Yellowstone National Park, MT & WY, June 2025 Nez Perce Picnic Area A couple days ago we went to Nez Perce Picnic Area and saw a Great Blue Heron nest in the far distance. Today, we decided to use a pull off that was closer to the trees in which we saw the nest. (John…