{"id":434,"date":"2012-07-07T03:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=434"},"modified":"2012-07-08T02:15:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T02:15:01","slug":"june-week-4-teton-sunrise-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"June Week 4 &#8211; Teton Sunrise, Sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunrise at the beginning of summer can be very early.\u00c2\u00a0 But if you are in Grand Teton National Park you must get up and out for the first light on the mountains, even if that means leaving your room\/tent at 4:30 AM.\u00c2\u00a0 Summer isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the most likely time of the year to produce clouds needed to bounce the first light around.\u00c2\u00a0 Yet you have to go out just in case.\u00c2\u00a0 In my case there were only bald skies in the morning.\u00c2\u00a0 The reflection is still nice at Oxbow Bend and worth seeing but it won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be a prize winner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/June-4-OxbowBend-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-435\" title=\"June 4 - OxbowBend web\" src=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/June-4-OxbowBend-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/June-4-OxbowBend-web.jpg 800w, http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/June-4-OxbowBend-web-300x149.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This site will make you want to return in fall when the aspen are golden at the water\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s edge in front of Mt. Moran at Oxbow Bend along the Snake River.\u00c2\u00a0 Also the moose might roam in the water seeking vegetation there once they have stripped all the willows throughout the summer months.\u00c2\u00a0 In this image I preferred there to be no details in the tree line since that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how they look before sunshine reaches them. (So I exposed for the Mountain.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_436\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/June-4-BearCub-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-436\" class=\" wp-image-436 \" title=\"June 4 -BearCub web\" src=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/June-4-BearCub-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/June-4-BearCub-web.jpg 500w, http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/June-4-BearCub-web-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bear Cub Plays<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Both Grizzly and Black bears live all over the Tetons but usually it is the black bears that visitors observe along trails leading to the mountains.\u00c2\u00a0 They feed on berries, roots and grasses for most of the summer and fall.\u00c2\u00a0 In the spring they may prey on young elk and deer.<\/p>\n<p>One evening sky in the Tetons did produce some color so I chose to focus on the clouds and silhouette the portion of Teton Range that is recognizable from its distinctive shapes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/June-4-TetonSky-web4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-441\" title=\"June 4 - TetonSky web\" src=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/June-4-TetonSky-web4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/June-4-TetonSky-web4.jpg 500w, http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/June-4-TetonSky-web4-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>One could take many different exposures and combine them with High Dynamic Range software and end up with details in the mountains.\u00c2\u00a0 But I chose to expose for the sky and let the mountain tips go dark!\u00c2\u00a0 This image was captured from the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Teton Point Turnout.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<address>Nothing rises as glorious as the Tetons<\/address>\n<address>as thrust from the center of the earth heavenwards<\/address>\n<address>its range from edge to edge amorphous<\/address>\n<address>This garment hem of the Goddess is ragged<\/address>\n<address>\u00c2\u00a0 as heaven meets the earth<\/address>\n<address>She dances there between the sky and the ground<\/address>\n<address>\u00c2\u00a0 each peak a fissiparous splitting of her very soul<\/address>\n<address>the range that has come to be icon of grandeur.<\/address>\n<address>Illuminated clouds above the earthen breasts<\/address>\n<address>dream of each tomorrow waiting<\/address>\n<address>to carry birth waters to lands&#8217; ends.<\/address>\n<address>Nothing rises as glorious as the Tetons\u00c2\u00a0<\/address>\n<address>\u00c2\u00a0<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunrise at the beginning of summer can be very early.\u00c2\u00a0 But if you are in Grand Teton National Park you must get up and out for the first light on the mountains, even if that means leaving your room\/tent at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=434\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hkEw-70","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}