Jansen Gunderson Landscape Photography

I recently made a photography trip to Yellowstone National Park. Access to the park in the winter time is much different from that of the summer. Camping is somewhat difficult and only two lodges in the park remain open in the Winter: Mammoth Hot Springs and Old Faithful Snow Lodge. Access to Old Faithful Snow Lodge must be done by either a guided snowmobile tour or by snow coach. We hired a snow coach departing from Flagg Ranch at the southern entrance to the park and spent a few days touring the park on skis, rather than by the controversial snowmobiles. It was the last weekend of the Winter season and the park was eerily vacant. We watched the Old Faithful Geyser erupt and there weren’t any other people around; quite the opposite from the crowded summer months. The weather turned out to not be quite ideal for photography yet I am quite happy with the few pictures I did make. Below is a photograph of Castle Geyser, located on the boardwalk in the Firehole River Geyser Basin, near Old Faithful. Fujichrome Provia 100F, 4×5, f/32 for 3″. More photos on Wyoming Landscape Photography.

I have compiled a small portfolio of photographs taken this past winter in Wyoming. This Winterscapes portfolio is comprised of photographs taken with 4×5 inch large format film and 6×4.5 centimeter medium format film. I am also working on transitioning my other portfolios to some new web exhibit software Matt Magruder turned me onto called Indexhibit. The image below is titled Ice Cave and was taken last month in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming.

Thanks to everyone who came to the opening reception of Winterscapes at the Teton Art Lab as well as the Labor of Love exhibition at the Art Association of Jackson Hole. I will also be exhibiting at the Art Association’s annual Member’s Group Show this Coming March. More information to come.

I am very exited to be showing at the Teton Art Lab Gallery in Jackson, Wyoming this February. It is a group show titled “Winterscapes” and runs from February 1st through February 29th with an opening reception on the evening of February 1st. I’ll be showing just a few small prints along with some extraordinary work by other local artists. Directions below.

I’ve finished my portfolio book which I’ll be using for my 2008 marketing campaign. It is nothing too fancy but a 40 page softcover book showing some of my work from the last 5 years. The book is comprised mostly of Utah landscape photographs and abstract views of the intimate landscape. I don’t intend to make any money off of this book as it is simply a small portfolio, but if you’re interested in obtaining a copy, you may do so by following the link below to the Blurb Bookstore.

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I have added some additional photographs to Wyoming Landscape Photography. Some of which I have been sitting on for some time not being able to decide whether or not they fit into this particular project. I went ahead and added them anyway as I feel like they are indeed representative of the Wyoming Landscape and deserve to be part of the Wyoming Revealed Project. The “new” images include: Granite and Lichen, Dinwoody Basin, and Continental Peak (as shown below).

Below is the image I promised from my last post. I’ve been working with this particular Grand Teton Photograph for a few days and I think I’ve finally arrived at a consensus for how it should appear. I have shunned the current high dynamic range trend with this image and left the foreground in a deep shadow. Though I did indeed use a 2 stop graduated neutral density filter to make this photograph, the foreground, I felt, was competing with the sunlit peaks of the Tetons and so I decided to burn it in some. See the full size version of Teton Winter Sunrise.

While hiking with the dogs on our usual walk on the Big Rocks and Black Canyon trails near the base of Teton Pass, I became aware of some of the small saplings piercing through the snow and the abstract patterns they made against the white backdrop. I returned the next day with the camera and shot some photos.

Mamiya 645AF, 80mm, Fujichrome Provia 100F, Photoshop CS3 black and white conversion.

The skies have been unusually clear the last few days in north western Wyoming. Clear skies means cold temperatures but it also means a greater chance for a predictable sunrise on the Teton Mountains. The thermometer read 8 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit when I left for the park this morning and there were a few sparse clouds in the sky. I arrived at my destination at the Taggart/Bradley Lakes trailhead, where the Teton Park Road is seasonally closed, just in time and got the 4×5 set up. I managed 6 exposures of the changing light before the sky became overcast. Below is a digital snap:

I visited a rather unknown section of Wyoming known as the Sweetwater Domes. The Sweetwater River, with its headwaters in the Wind River mountain range runs just south of these large granitic domes. A brief snowstorm passed through in the evening and I made this photograph of Lone Mountain just as it was clearing and the sun was setting. A more detailed description here at Wyoming Landscape Photography.