We were in the Lamar Valley to look for the wolf packs that often prey on the bisons that dot the landscape. While we did see some wolves, at great distance, the bison were predominant. Although I had hundreds of bison available to photograph, five of them give me enough scale here to express just how vast the Lamar Valley is. I work this image into five separate layers to make sense of a vast scenic vista, using my long telephoto lens at 415mm to collapse the great distance between the five layers. The five bison provide that important scale context – they are incongruously small compared to the land they graze upon. I make the bison my base layer, and build the image up to a vast plateau or hillside layer that connects the bison to the aspens that crown the plateau. The next layer features that stand of aspens with long white trunks and clusters of glowing yellow leaves. The final layer is a vast hill that carries the eye up and beyond the image. It was on this hill that we saw the telltale moving spots: a roving wolf pack. They were so far away that the only way to see them was through a high-powered spotting scope. There was no way for me to photograph them, yet I was glad that their presence led us to the spectacular Lamar Valley.