Color on High
Today was without question one of the best photo days I’ve ever had. My buddy, Jay, and I headed north to the Martinsdale Reservoir about 1:30pm with perfect clouds filling the sky and nothing but stunning scenes to behold. It occurred to me at one point that when you live in places congested with countless [...]
Spring Crazies
Sunday evening I went for a drive along one of my favorite roads in the Shields Valley. I’ve tried several times in the past to take this same shot, but was never able to get the height needed to reveal the field. Today I decided to climb up on top of my car and was [...]
Off The Grid
I wanted to let you all know that I’ll be out of town until this coming Tuesday evening. I’m headed off on a 60-mile raft trip through the Middle-of-nowhere, Montana, and will be quite ‘off the grid’. I had anticipated creating posts ahead of time and scheduling them to go ‘live’ on the [...]
Stopover
Each year the Sandhill Cranes stop on a migratory path over Montana, grubbing for a meal in the stalks of last year’s cuttings. Today I saw only 10 or so, but a few days ago I bet there were about 50. That’s not a huge number by any means, but it’s more than I [...]
Western Stack
Today’s title comes from the great layering visible in this image, taken an hour or so after the photo from yesterday’s post. The natural lines allow you to step your way through the scene visually, upward into new tones and textures at each pause. One of my favorite elements is the pleasant S-curve [...]
View North
No commentary today, just an image looking north at the Crazy Mountains. I’ll try to make more time for tomorrow’s post…