The Grand Tetons abounds with wildlife. On my last visit I found this very picturesque female Mallard looking for her breakfast right next to a reflection of a Tetons themselves.
This picture wasn’t planned and actually turned out to be quite lucky. I was walking back from where I had been photographing the sunrise and saw the duck slowly swimming up and down the waterway. I framed what I hoped would be a great shot and waited and waited for the duck to swim to a pleasing position. The light initially I thought was a total bust, but it did shine through in quite an interesting way, so I am really pleased with this unexpected image.
This trip as I look back on the images I took turned out to be very fruitful despite the crazy weather that I experienced in just a short period of time. Here, here, and here are some other images from the trip.
Enjoy!
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Wow Chris! Is this just taken with the camera and your skills or is there some sort of image editing done after the fact?
Either way, what a shot! (love the contrast of the one lonely duck in the pond)
Great composition too
Alex thanks for the compliment. The shot is taken with basically the camera only. No photoshop wizardry here.
This picture was one of those provident ones that happen every once in a while!