With the heat of summer here, many of the elk in Rocky Mountain National Park? have moved to higher – and cooler – ground. For a photographer, this is a great opportunity to get some pictures of them without having trees and other foliage in the way.
Here a bull rests in the early morning sun among grass and wildflowers while behind him, remnants of winter (snow) still linger of the slopes of a mountain.
![An Elk bull rests at the top of Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. (© Tony’s Takes)](http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ZfKM0ukjYg0/VZx2p-P0nMI/AAAAAAAAOAA/iIkT062Za7E/s710/19202748790_237eb51a65_o.jpg)