In July 2011, on one of my trips back to the US, we decided to take a photography vacation to Yellowstone National Park. We stayed just outside of West Yellowstone, on Henry’s Lake. One of the evenings, after we had left the park and were headed back to our cabin, we decided to grab some dinner in a local gas station. Our trip had been incredible so far and the only thing we hadn’t photographed yet that we really wanted to was a bull moose.
A wildlife photographer we met at Trout Lake told us that there were usually moose out around the south end of Henry’s Lake, so after dinner we decided to take one last shot and finding some moose. We headed into a small neighborhood near a river where moose had been seen the night before, but unfortunaltey all we saw were mosquitos and a few fishermen. So we headed back towards the lake and decided to turn off onto one last dirt road before calling it a night.
As luck would have it, and right as the sun was setting, we spotted this big bull moose grazing about 40 feet off the road. So we stopped and photographed him until the light was too low to get sharp shots. He was the last animal on our checklist of animals we were hoping to see and shoot during our trip.