A Trio of Moose

[Loi Nguyen]

I was on my way from my new place in Silver Gate, a small community outside the North East entrance of Yellowstone, to Bozeman airport 4 hours away when I saw a couple of folks taking pictures and filming this trio of moose. I said to myself, no time to stop I'd better move on, but how could I? So I put on the brake after driving past the moose for about 30 yards. In Yellowstone, rangers are very strict about people stopping in the middle of the road, so the only thing to do was to back into a pull out parking where the folks were. The road was not plowed clearly, and I was on a large 4X4 SUV, and I made a mistake of veering off the road with my rear wheel. No problem I said, I just put the car in forward mode and drove forward. Then I heard a sickening sound "thump!" The road was collapsing below my front wheel. My SUV tipped over 45 degree! and there was No cellular phone service!!!

Luckily, one of the photographers is a well known film maker and a local who carried a short wave radio with him. So he relayed the message to the ranger station. The ranger came about 1/2 hr later and after checking my situation out, called for a towing service. One hour later I was rescued and luckily made the flight.

Long story, but this is going to be a memorable picture, not for the quality, but for the memory.

Canon 5D4
70-200f2.8 II @ 120mm
1/40, f5.6, ISO-800
HH

Happy New Year to all of you.

Loi

P.S. THE COST OF TOWING WAS $170.

[haseeb badar]

Hi Loi -- Indeed this will be very a memorable image for you not just for the image ( which i quite liked , as the small in frame subjects and the snow filled landscape depicts the conditions very nicely in which these animals survive .) but for the cost that you had to bear.

I like the way you have retained the misty feel to the image and the tungsten colours to it . Works for me .

A very happy new year to you .

TFs !

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Loi - I'm glad you were ultimately able to get the rental car out and make your flight. Good use of the time waiting to capture the image. There's a graphic nature to this that I like with good separation between each moose. The blue color is typical of a Yellowstone weather front.

TFS,
Rachel

[Gabriela Plesea]

Dear Loi,

I really enjoyed reading the story behind this image:S3: And so glad you made it to the airport in time!

I like the scene you have captured, this image makes me think of an old fashioned postcard, one that faded with time:)

Just curious, have you thought of a B/W conversion here? The lack of contrast might be an issue but maybe worth a try.

Thank you so much for sharing, I enjoyed viewing.
Hope you have a wonderful 2017:cheers:

Kind regards,

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Loi, I very much like the look & feel here, nicely frame too IMHO. I just feel it lacks more tonal range to create 'depth' to the image.

TFS
Steve