Moose Encounter at Yellowstone

Here are some photos of my first Moose encounter in Yellowstone.  We found this one as we were headed to Cooke City on the north side of Yellowstone.  Jared spotted a female moose and made a quick turn around with his vehicle to try to find it again.  We ended up having to drive to the next turn-around as the snow was quite high along the road.  By the time that we got back, Doug had spotted this male bull moose walking through the trees.

We set up near the road as he walked out of the tree line right in front of us.  It was very exciting as he got into open ground in the virgin show.

Taken with Canon 1DX and Canon 500mm F4 IS II with 1.4X III teleconverter, mounted on a tripod with Wimberley II gimbal head.

Manual mode, 1/2000 sec @ F7.1, ISO 800, spot metering off of the snow