Mt Moran at Oxbow Bend : Grand Teton National Park

@Magda: yes, it's beautiful here - leaving tomorrow, and I'll miss it for sure. thanks for the kind words on the image

@mats: thanks - there is really no excuse for not setting up with a tripod, and really making it even better : but I had time pressures, and was with three very anxious children ready to enter yellowstone twenty miles away...

@Bill Brown: Thank you Bill

@Kaddy: Thank you Kaddy

@Dulcie: Thanks Dulcie - I'll do it again someday with better light, and less wind on the oxbox.

@Yvon: Thanks Yvon - the mountains here in Wyoming are indeed spectacular!

@sawsengee: It is amazing how close these mountains are: the are "young" by mountain standards, so they are so close to the valley floor: allowing relatively easy access.

@Lorraine: thanks Lorraine. The mountains do impose themselves with confidence over the valley. I've enjoyed the week here with the family.

@zOOm: It's even harder to catch this, as it's really a moving river with ripples in the foreground (the snake river) - so I was very happy with the end result.

@dj.tigersprout: Thank you DJ - would you believe this was midday? Sunrise is before 5am, and this was over an hour drive from our hotel: so it was too disruptive to make it for sunrise: but I'd try again someday: as the ridge gets perfect light in the morning as I was facing almost due west when I took this photo.

@Dawn Bayer: Thank you Dawn. I am amazed ever day we drive out through Jackson how impressive the Tetons are. They take my breath away as well.

@dkc: Thank you dkc, I have enjoyed the week, but am leaving this afternoon. I will miss this valley -as it is quite stunning and picturesque.

@Ajay: Thank you Ajay, that's a grand comment. I tried not to have the horizon line dead center, so there was some interest in the photo: but I could have almost flipped the photo and it would have worked.

@Onlymehdi: Thank you Mehdi - the reflection is harder than it looked, as the foreground isn''t still water (it's the snake river). Glad you like it.

@john4jack: thanks Jack - considering all the fantastic water photos I've seen from you, I"m happy with that praise!

@MARIANA: Yes, it's so beautiful - and you know, the French from Canada are the ones that named this mountain range!

@Lambspun: Glad you understand. Sometimes, my wife isn't quite so - even though she's fabulous, a van fun of kids aren't patient (that's why I've bought them all cameras - and they all take photos now, except the wife !!)

@Isidro: Gracias Isidro. Mi Tio's Casa is outside Buenos Aires in San Isidro - what a coincidence!

@Steve Rice: Thank you Steve - I loved the scenery, even if it rained all week !!

@Susan: Yes, pretty happy with the results. There were some other tourists in the foreground - so I had to go for a panorama to crop them out... Couildn't wait for them to move on...

@B. Thomas: I've heard that moose frequent the place. I"ll be back another time, I'm sure. It's only 41 miles from where we stayed, and I was tempted to go for a sunrise, but it rained all week - and the sunrises weren't worth getting up at 3am to shoot them (while on family vacation, if it were a photo vacation - I would have tried).

@Karthik: So truly said. I love the perspectives from India - always so balanced and grounded.

@Uday: Thank you Uday

@Sugata: Thank you Sugata - it was a bit choppy, but the shutter was long enough to even it out a little bit.

@Eric Fry: Thank you Eric, and thanks for adding me to your blogwatch. Kind words on the photo.

@Barbara: I'm just disappointed that I couldn't have seen the sunrise alpenglow at this location... It rained all week, and the cloud cover just didn't enable any reasonable sunrises with their magic glow. But I am glad I stopped and captured this image. Probably my favorite of the trip.

@jamesy: the slower shutter speed tends to average out the ripples - can't work in very large waves, but for some waters it can work. it's a balance, especially when doing it without a tripod...

@Double KK Photography: thank you Double KK

@Rob: Thanks Rob - I loved the scenery, and l;ook forward to another opportunity to see them again.

@Carlos: Amazingly enough - this was as wide as I could go, and still make it a meaningful shot: there was a road on the right, and the river bends towards the left, blocked by trees. The foreground had people standing in it - this was taken over their heads. I captured as much as I could, without the hand of man in the image. Thanks for the kind words on the photo.