Jenny Lake from the boat ramp

A midsummer visit to the Tetons swaps out the fall gold and winter snow of most of these shots for a completely different palette — deep green forest, clear glacial-fed water, and bare gray rock still holding a little snow in the high couloirs even in July.

Getting the shot

Calm morning water gave a clean, near-perfect reflection with barely any ripple to break it up. Framed low along the near shoreline to bring the foreground rocks and shrubs into the shot rather than just the peaks and their mirror image. Shot at the Jenny Lake boat ramp with a 14mm wide angle lens on a tripod, to keep the whole scene — foreground, lake, and peaks — sharp.