Jackson, WY

[Elfin Yeti]

Was there over Thanksgiving. Truly one of the most beautiful places!

This is an inversion layer -- Jackson was quite overcast under that blanket!


Grand Teton


We hiked a loooong way up (about 1200 feet) -- it was like taking a picture from an airplane! The green roofs to the right of the large parcel is where we stayed.


Elk




The kids

[elleng]

1. The Kids enjoyed themselves, I guess!!!

[Blue_In_AK]

2. These are lovely shots.

I've never been up to that part of Wyoming. It looks really beautiful. Unlike southern Wyoming which is a lot of nothing. :)

[Celebration]

3. Ow, wow.

Remind me not to fly into Jackson Hole airport when there is an inversion layer.

Looks like a great place you stayed.

Thanks for sharing!

[Mira]

4. Oh my! You are knocking them out of the park. The last one is almost un-

recognizable as a photograph, it's a watercolor, or an oil painted with the knife. All of these are phenomenal, the light on the Grand Teton is gorgeous.
And it seems hoofs follow you everywhere.

My favorite memories of Jackson Hole are line dancing at the Million Dollar Bar, a late fall wild flower rich hike at Lake Jenny, and the tourist trap ambiance of huge money.

[Elfin Yeti]

5. Yep, PhotoShop!

I love the painterly feel I can get with PhotoShop. I play with it a lot -- the elk antlers on the log cabin is PhotoShopped as well.

I was told (after the fact) that the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar is THE place to find extraordinary rear views of Wranglers. If I'd only known I would have done some of my own research!

[Elfin Yeti]

6. Just one more...

[ConsAreLiars]

7. Damn. You Do Magic!

First by seeing, framing, filming and showing, but also by the further tweaking as in the last two. The rules say blowing out highlights is bad. That abstracted dead skull-antler against a sensually detailed wall just laughs at convention. And the last, first the magic of getting a couple of dogs to position themselves in that way in that location, well, who knows that incantation other than, apparently, you alone. And then the tweaking - well no magic, just a very talented artist's eye and imagination.

In fewer words, WOW!

[Elfin Yeti]

8. You are a great critic!

Thanks for the kind words but you are too kind! The painterly dog photo story: here's the original shot...

I hung back because I wanted to take the shot as you see it here. At that moment my two "kids" turned around to see what had become of me!

So I isolated them from the photo to get a better look and fell in love with those faces, especially in the snow! So that's when I started playing with PhotoShop!