The Fog of Rut
With the colors of fall comes the rut, the time when “antlered ungulates mate.” Elk are well known for their distinct bugle during this period, a hauntingly beautiful call to any contending males in the area. Speaking of contending males, while searching for that bugle video, I came across this one…amazing! Though the season is [...]
Grand Teton Fall
Somehow winter snuck in…we received over a foot of snow in the last two days and it’s not even the middle of October. They’re expecting 40 inches in some parts of MT…crazy. I’ve not gotten out to take any shots yet, but that’s probably a good thing since I have a lot to post from [...]
Redemption in Color
The Caribou-Targhee National Forest runs through the southeast corner of Idaho and is home to one of my favorite dirt roads. Formally known as Grassy Lake Road, it was introduced to me as Redemption Road and is the name I’ve held onto. It begins in the ancient lava flows that have become today’s famous potato [...]
Twin Lakes
Following up with another image from my recent trip over the 10,974-foot Beartooth Pass, this view of Twin Lakes is among the region’s most iconic. I took the shot while balancing on a small ledge 900 feet above the ground in front of me with wind gusts blasting at close to 50mph. If you’ve ever [...]
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 [...]
Evening Rays II
Went for a nice drive today, visiting Canyon Ferry Lake for the first time. Arrived a little too late to take any decent photos on the water, but all was not lost. The trek over included about 50 miles of backwoods gravel roads and some of really amazing scenes. Today’s image came on the approach [...]