While most vistas are oriented horizontally, there are times where the vista is up and down instead of from side to side. This image is one of those up and downers. The famous Moulton barns at the base of the Tetons are often photographed at dawn. There were at least 25 or thirty other photographers there with us. Many choose to concentrate on the mountains and barn, but I placed my emphasis (more than half the image) on the sage, because of its color, texture, and warmth. I limit the amount of sky in the image because it was cloudless and without character. The barn is a transitional linkage for me, a man made object connecting the texture of the sage to the texture of the Tetons. My vista is about the varied textures of nature, large and small, in comparison to the texture of the newcomer – man – whose barn is comparatively new on the scene (about 120 years or so ago.) The whole scene is illuminated with early morning light – warm, and well defined in terms of the shadows it casts.