Beartooth Butte
Though not nearly as dynamic as my last post, I thought a panorama would be a good follow-up. Taken a few days ago along the Montana/Wyoming border in the amazing Beartooth Mountains, this lakeside view is comprised of five separate images. Unfortunately, I forgot to remove my polarizing filter and it resulted in a darkening [...]
Blade of Light
A slit in the clouds reveals the blade of light which has pierced it… About as close to ‘straight from the camera’ as I could do, I performed only a noise reduction to combat the high ISO remnants. The darkness of the foreground was accented during conversion to sRGB, but there was none of the [...]
Tempest Blooms
The Gravelly Mountains continue to produce amazing photos. Despite some difficult shooting conditions on my last trip, the images still came out wonderful. Maybe not quite as many good shots as during previous trips, but it’s hard to walk away from a place so beautiful without a few decent frames…
Highland Crop
Backed right up into the foothills of the Crazy Mountains, I found this location by accident and my timing couldn’t have been better. With its crop just bailed and not yet stacked, the glowing field at foreground-right really caught my attention for how it stands in contrast to the land surrounding it.
Zen Island
Continuing with another image from Canyon Ferry, this is an example of one of my favorite minimalist subjects…the lone tree. A perfect scene to continue this study, the flat light in the foreground makes for a stark, yet not fully silhouetted subject against a fairly dramatic sky in the back. I hope I get to [...]
Potato, Idaho
This post is really Archive Dive IV, but I decided to go with the title I gave the image when it was first taken. Significant in that it was the first digital image I ever took that said to me, “Digital can reflect tradition”, this photo set off a firestorm of photographic passion for me [...]
The Passing
At peace she is, my remarkable grandmother. This weekend was a celebration of her life and an honoring of her memory. Above all, she lived only for her family and for God, never for herself. She enriched the lives of everyone she knew and, through her example to others, many that she did not. A [...]