Today started out simple enough. We drove out to get some morning shots of the Grand Teton peak. We stopped by the Church of the Transfiguration which is in the part and is ran by the local Episcopal Church, but they were having services so we couldn’t photograph inside and decided we would return later for that, but I did get a nice shot of the peak. Good thing too because it was to be about the last we saw of any blue in the sky. It appears that the rain followed us from Texas all the way up here.

As we were leaving the area we noticed a lot of people standing on a bridge, where it says “No stopping or standing anytime”. Well, of course we had to get out and see what was going on like everyone else. There were a couple of moose down by the river and everyone was shooting away with their cameras. This was cool because moose was one of the animals that we were wanting to see while we were up here.

Next we swung by an what remains of the cabin that was used in the 50’s western Shane. My dad is a big fan of that movie so I thought I’d get some pictures of it for him. As you can see, By this time the rain was moving into the area and the mountains were becoming clouded in haze.  The only thing missing was a little kid running to the corner of the cabin yelling “Come back Shane!”.  Well, that and the roof.  {edit 9/26/09:  Just rented and watched the movie Shane and it was clear to me that this is NOT the cabin that Shane was staying in.  This was in fact in the movie, but it was a homestead of one of the other farmers.  Still a historic movie location.}

Next stop… The most photographed barn in America. I think that is actually it’s official name at this point. 🙂 This is an old barn that was built by the Mormon settlers in the area back in the late 1800s. Seems that every photo-buff that comes to the area gets a shot of this one so I didn’t want to be left out.  Of course I at least tried to make it a little different than the other shots I had seen.  Low and wide was my plan.

And then after dinner, we watched the sun set behind Mount Moran (and the clouds). Not a very spectacular sunset but once it was down I took the opportunity to capture this long (15 second) exposure.

Tomorrow, more dogging rain and taking pictures. As it stands right now, Thursday is the only day this week without some sort of rain activity mentioned in the forcast.  Maybe I’ll get some cool storm shots to share.  🙂  There’s always a bright side.