Jim,

Glad to hear you finally got to the park and thanks for sharing the wildlife images. I do have a technical question about the first three. It looks to me like you might have had to do a significant crop on these. The thing that really struck me though was the pretty rough looking bokeh with these images. Is that an issue with the lens you were using? I have to say that your results with the Nikkor 800mm has me looking around for one of these. That image of the eagle at ISO800 with that lens is just great.

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Here's a sample of images from the trip.

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Now a few observations. While a beautiful place I personally truly find it falling a bit short of the wonderful scenery in Glacier.

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I know what you mean here. Yellowstone scenery is all about geological features, river meadows, and waterfalls. But you can always drive south for 30 minutes to the Tetons for spectacular mountains. However, nothing in the lower 48 beats Glacier for snow capped mountains and valleys.

Again, thanks for sharing.

Geo