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09/05/2026

Just found the king.

09/05/2026

**Someone called a ranger on us. The ranger moved them instead.**

We had spent hours in the grass photographing Hoback, the King of the Tetons, from roughly 50 yards away.

Above us, a crowd stood along the edge of a small hill. From their angle, we looked closer. In reality, the slope had fooled them. Some of the people on top were much closer to Hoback than we were.

The ranger arrived, read the actual ground, and told the people on the hill to move back.

Then, just when I thought the evening was over, Hoback crossed the road and walked into an open field with the Tetons rising behind him.

Sometimes you wait all night for one photograph.

Sometimes the whole ridiculous story is what makes the photograph worth taking.

New story is up.

https://wherethewildbeastsroam.com/tips-guides/photographing-hoback-grand-teton-distance/

09/02/2026

At noon, a moose can be standing exactly where you hoped, and the photograph can still be dead.

Finding the animal is only half the work.

This post explains why morning, evening, and cloudy days can give you better wildlife photographs, what habitat to watch without being handed exact locations, and which basic camera controls help when an animal suddenly moves.

You do not need a secret spot to improve most of your wildlife photographs.

You need to understand the hour.

Learn why morning, evening, and cloudy days produce better wildlife photographs in Yellowstone and Grand Teton, plus practical camera and habitat tips.

09/02/2026

I wasn’t going to post this yet.

It feels a little early to open the vault, but I promised and moose season is almost here.

These two were still sizing each other up.

Soon the velvet will be gone, the air will turn cold, and the kings of the Tetons will start settling things for real.

Are you ready to watch them go at it?

08/30/2026

We went looking for the king. The storm gave us the sky.

We hiked into Gros Ventre hoping to show a family member Hoback, the King of the Tetons, still carrying velvet beside the river.

We found him.

Then he bedded down, the rain arrived, and we had to make a run for the car with thousands of dollars in camera gear.

I thought the day was over.

Then the storm broke, another moose appeared, and a rainbow rose over the Sleeping Indian in the exact place I had waited years to see it.

Sometimes the photograph you planned is only the road to the one you were supposed to take.

New story is up.

A hike into Gros Ventre to photograph Hoback became a race through heavy rain and ended with a rainbow over the Sleeping Indian.

08/29/2026

The vault is finally opening.

This is the first of thousands of moose photographs I’ve been holding onto from the past 5 years.

And the best time of year is almost here.

Cold mornings. Golden willows. River mist. Giant bulls stepping out like kings.

Moose season is right around the corner.

08/27/2026

The kings are still wearing velvet. Not for long.

Something is changing in the willows.

The bulls are finishing their antler growth, familiar moose are showing up in the corridors I watch, and we are getting close to my favorite time of year in Grand Teton.

This post is about what happens before the rut, why the velvet suddenly disappears, a strange gathering pattern I have watched for years, and why I am about to stop staring at my computer and disappear back into moose country.

Moose season is coming.

Bull moose are approaching one of the wildest changes of the year in Grand Teton. Learn what happens to their velvet, where they gather, and what comes next.

08/26/2026

There’s an old photo of me crouched low with my camera while a line of people stood behind me watching the same animal.

They saw the animal.

I was thinking about the photograph.

That difference is a big part of what became Where The Wild Beasts Roam.

New story: Before There Was a Map, People Followed My Camera.

There is a photograph I keep coming back to. I am crouched low with my camera. Behind me is a line of people, all standing and looking toward the same thing I am photographing. They were not crouching with me. That is part of what makes the photograph matter. They knew I had found something […]

08/20/2026

GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK — Grand Teton National Park (GTNP) announced the decision to move forward with construction of a separated multi-use pathway along the Moose-Wilson corridor, a reversal of the decision made in 2016. The amendment to the Record of Decision for the Moose-Wilson Corridor Com...

08/19/2026

**The kings are gathering.**

Moose season is almost here, and this is the stretch of the year where I start watching everything a little closer.

The bulls are still carrying velvet, familiar moose are showing back up in the corridors I watch, and before long they’ll start rubbing that velvet away and sizing each other up for the rut.

I wrote about what I’ve seen over the years, including one theory I have about why some of these bulls gather where they do before things really get going.

I could be completely wrong.

But after spending years watching them, there are patterns you start to feel before you can completely explain them.

Pretty soon I’m going to have to put the computer down and disappear into moose country.

New post is up.

You should not need an expensive private experience to understand Yellowstone and Grand Teton. Learn why Where The Wild Beasts Roam was built to help people explore, learn, and find wildlife on their own.