GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING

Acclaimed photographer tells the stories behind latest stunning frames captured during his lockdown journey to wild frontier

Mount Moran in the Tetons offers as good a mountain backdrop as I know in America. In the winter, in particular, it has a grandeur that is difficult to match.

The lake below this section of the Tetons is frozen thick in midwinter and offers the perfect stage on which to tell stories but we are always mindful that, on a good day, the whole scene becomes too bright within 45 minutes of sunrise.

Images like this require very early starts and so we are always in position well before dawn.