This week's encounter with four moose in Yellowstone reminded me that I came across moose nearby in the Grand Tetons in September 2003. I got my first digital SLR a year earlier, but was still shooting and scanning film concurrently. I got a few blurry film shots of a cow and calf on film, and had better luck with a lone cow with the DSLR. It sounds funny to say since moose are so skittish, but the images are too close. I was probably shooting from a car at a moose very close to the road. My long lens on that trip was a 300mm f4, which is a great lens and I still have, but I can't zoom out like with the 100-400 which became my workhorse lens shortly afterward. I posted three more moose images to the gallery for that trip. Except for a distant shot of one racing through our neighborhood last winter, I hadn't gotten an SLR shot of a moose since Maine in October 2003, so until this week's encounter everything else moose-related was caught on trailcams. Click on the image to start the slide show at that point. If you keep clicking, there also are additional and reprocessed images, mostly elk but also a few other things.

Grand Teton Moose