Jackson photographer Savannah Rose already has a portfolio filled with once-in-a-lifetime shots of Wyoming’s wildlife, but an image she captured this week has already drawn the admiration and envy of wildlife photographers worldwide.

While traversing Grand Teton National Park, Rose captured an incredible image of a “royal” bull elk, standing at the crest of a hill, with the Grand Teton in the background framed by its antlers.

“It was actually a really tense moment,” she told Cowboy State Daily. “I was trying to make sure that I could get everything exactly how I wanted it in the few seconds he was up there.”

The image, “no AI or Photoshop composite,” is as picturesque as one could want from an elk in Grand Teton National Park, and another career highlight for Rose.

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