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English: Teton Sunset with Flowers

Tetons with Flowers. We were driving back to the hotel from Yellowstone late in the day. The light wasn't all that good, but we stopped by the road and set up just in case. I was waving my arms to ward off the mosquitos and finally got back in the car, leaving my camera on the tripod outside.

After a while another car pulled up and two young guys hopped out. One of them put up his tripod next to mine and, after snapping off a few shots, moved over to the left and sat down right behind a clump of yellow flowers. He began to frame this with the Tetons in the background. I was so impressed (and ashamed that I hadn't seen it first) that I said I might try to steal his idea. He said fine with him. Meanwhile the other guy told me that the photographer was a pro from San Francisco.

I decided not to move my camera as long as he had the spot occupied. Soon they left and took off in their car. The light was still improving, so I moved over to the spot he had found.

The scene I shot consists of five blended images. The first four were selective focus: one for the flowers on the right, one for the flowers on the left, one for the bushes in the mid-foreground, and one for the distant trees and mountains. Finally, the sky was way too bright for the foreground so I took a much darker exposure for this.