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Gull Point Drive Day 40
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 (This is one of the sets of pictures from Yellowstone that we did not have time to post. There is one more, after this one. Unfortunately, it is the one that had almost 2,500 pictures. At least it is down to 1,600 now!) The plan for today was to…
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Southeast Yellowstone Day 41: Part 2
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 This is the first of the three days of Yellowstone pictures that have not been posted. This was two days before the Sunday that we left the park. In the morning, we got up early to see the wolves. (We posted these pictures and videos here.) Some of us…
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North Yellowstone Day 37: Part 2
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 This is part two of our drive to north Yellowstone. Part one has not been posted, yet. These are the pictures that I took with the Canon T7i for comparison to the Canon R7. For this day, the Canon R7 was set to electronic shutter and high speed burst…
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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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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 36
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 You always hear about snow in the middle of the summer in Yellowstone National Park. Today, John and I go to experience the mid-summer snow fall. Because of the snow, we decided to stay inside and not travel around. Especially since we are seeing a lot of California and…