April starts the spring thaw and with spring comes road openings. After a long winter with limited vehicle access to much of the park the middle of April brings a smile to my face.
A boar Grizzly Bear snacks on a winter kill carcass near Old Faithful on a cloudy April morning. With staggering amounts of winter snow fall there were over five winter kills within 100 yards of that carcass (Near Old Faithful). Shot with a Canon 7D with a 500/4.0L IS set in manual mode set at f/5.0, 1/500th of a second, and ISO400. Shot from a Gitzo 3540XLS with an Induro GHB2 gimbal head and custom long lens support.
A pair of Barrow's Goldeneye fly along the firehole river, while I roll along in a bison jam (Along the Firehole River). Shot with a Canon 7D with a 500/4.0L IS set in aperture priority mode at an exposure bias of +2/3 set at f/4.0, 1/1000th of a second, and ISO400. Shot handheld while sitting in a Bison jam.
A Killdeer calls out, assumably to attract a mate, during a break in the snow on a cold April morning (Near Liberty Cap). Shot with a Canon 7D with a 500/4.0L IS + 1.4 TC III set in aperture priority mode at an exposure bias of +2/3 set at f/4.0, 1/1000th of a second, and ISO400. Shot from a bean bag in the window of my Subaru.
Photography in April can be hit or miss, everything depends on snow melt and that is different each year.
