Paul Domsten
John Moulton Barn in the Grand Tetons
I thought I would have the place to myself getting here just after sunrise on a Sunday morning. Wow, was I wrong. I pulled up and was shocked to find so many people milling around. Luckily at that time of day it was all photographers with their tripods so I didn't have to worry about tourists walking into the shot. Everyone was very respectful of each other.
It was fun chatting with some of the other photographers, finding out where they were from and talking shop with them. Not too many of my family members or friends have any interest or clue when I start talking photography.
This is the John Moulton Barn of the ever so popular Mormon Row. Per the National Park Service...Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, sent parties from the Salt Lake Valley to establish new communities and support their expanding population. Mormon homesteaders, who settled east of Blacktail Butte near the turn of the 19-century, clustered their farms to share labor and community, a stark contrast with the isolation typical of many western homesteads. These settlers first arrived in the 1890s from Idaho establishing a community (named Grovont by the U.S. Post Office) known today as “Mormon Row.”
I was really hoping for some clouds for a little drama but no such luck on the morning I was there. At least it wasn't raining.
John Moulton Barn in the Grand Tetons
I thought I would have the place to myself getting here just after sunrise on a Sunday morning. Wow, was I wrong. I pulled up and was shocked to find so many people milling around. Luckily at that time of day it was all photographers with their tripods so I didn't have to worry about tourists walking into the shot. Everyone was very respectful of each other.
It was fun chatting with some of the other photographers, finding out where they were from and talking shop with them. Not too many of my family members or friends have any interest or clue when I start talking photography.
This is the John Moulton Barn of the ever so popular Mormon Row. Per the National Park Service...Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, sent parties from the Salt Lake Valley to establish new communities and support their expanding population. Mormon homesteaders, who settled east of Blacktail Butte near the turn of the 19-century, clustered their farms to share labor and community, a stark contrast with the isolation typical of many western homesteads. These settlers first arrived in the 1890s from Idaho establishing a community (named Grovont by the U.S. Post Office) known today as “Mormon Row.”
I was really hoping for some clouds for a little drama but no such luck on the morning I was there. At least it wasn't raining.