Hunter Aloft
As I wrote in a recent post, I’ve become much more of a bird admirer in recent years. There seem to be more large birds in this region, primarily raptors, and I can’t help but photograph them when the occasion permits. Today’s photo was taken, as so many of my recent images, in [...]
Absaroka Loom
This images was taken looking south into the Absaroka Mountains from the northern end of the Shields Valley. What strikes me the most about the photo is how the fierce blast of light on the foreground and dull, flat light on the background really compete with each other. If I hadn’t taken and [...]
Sunset Grazing
So here it is, the first ‘official’ cow-scape post. Sure, I’ve done several others before, but I just had to accept that I was taking pictures of cows. Seems pretty simple, I know, but I’m a bit of an idealist and it goes against some subconscious rule I made for myself along the [...]
Fading Gold
Busy couple of days… I wanted to post some images from my Idaho trip, but haven’t put them together yet. I did, however, process this image from last evening, taken in the Shields Valley looking west at the Bridger Mountains. I was shooting directly into the sun so I had to use my hand to [...]
Stages of Flight
I tried my hand at a bit of ‘vintage’ processing last evening and have decided to post the results for review…despite the slight banding visible in the vignetting that I just can’t seem to correct. The lack of detail, yet presence of grain makes for an interesting effect in the series. The process [...]
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 [...]