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unmoving and stationary monument
to geologic supremacy. There I was,
in a nearly 70 year old airplane
with no heat, wandering through
this complex atmospheric science
experience in a way I could never
have imagined.
Grand Teton National Park was
such an experience that I have
chosen to dedicate an entire future
book to the subject. However,
it gets fair representation in this
project, and created an immense
draw to fly in and around the
entirety of the Teton Range,
showing the mountains and the
inhabited valley below from a
wealth of unexpected angles.
Garrett Fisher is the author of ten
books, seven of which relate to aerial
photography. He is in the process
of publishing a long list of aerial
photography books focused on the Rockies
as seen from his antique airplane.
Garrett blogs regularly about his aviation
adventures at www.garrettfisher.me.
There is a matter of complexity to
deciding how to portray the entirety
of an area from an airplane. I often
ask myself what I would wish to see
from the ground if I were visiting
the area without an aircraft, and
the answer for me is consistently
the same: I don’t mind a few
images of popular areas, though
I would like to see the things that
I don’t have time, stamina, or
willingness to exert effort to see.
With that in mind, I spend much
of my perspectives in the book
from on high, looking back upon
Jackson Hole from many peaks
and mountain ridges encircling the
long valley, things that a person
could spend a lifetime exploring
and getting to understand.
Flying Jackson Hole is available at
Jackson Hole Book Trader, Valley Book
Store in Jackson, the author’s website,
and Amazon.com. WLM
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