Winter 2023 was unusually dry, with much lower snow, and more clear skies. The benefit is that sunrises and a full moon were in grand display.
A bitterly cold morning has coated the grasses along Ditch Creek in heavy hoarfrost.
Last week's heavy snows remain on the high, rocky peaks of the Teton range.
When I first saw this tree and its decaying sister it brought to mind an image I had seen so many years ago from the deserts of Nairobi by the great Freeman Patterson, an early inspiration for much of my photography.
It may be 15 below zero but a clear morning has allowed the sun to ignite the peaks of the Grand in a fiery orange as a full moon sets to the west. Winter sunrises are exceptionally spectacular on those rare clear mornings like this,
Pines and cottonwoods are coated in a heavy hoarfrost from the rising moisture of the Snake River.
A stand of cottonwoods stands laced in hoarfrost against a backdrop of snow-covered Pines.
The bitter cold has frozen every semblance of vapor and etched these aspen in crystals of lace.