Some places make you earn the shot. This one paid me back before I'd even unpacked.
I'd just driven over ten hours to get there, first night in the park. Any reasonable person would have set up camp and gone to sleep. I dropped my gear at Schwabacher's Landing and walked straight to the water instead.
There was no easing into it. The light was already going, so I planted my tripod in the grass and watched the whole sky catch fire behind the Grand. The river went dead calm and handed the entire thing back to me, peaks and all.
It was my first time ever photographing a Teton sunset. I'm not sure I'll ever get a better one to start with.
This one's about that. Ten hours of road, a place I'd been circling for years, and a sky that showed up early.
Worth every mile.