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 [...]
Pond at Dusk
This evening I went for a drive, looking for a slightly different scene from what I typically post. I’ve been showing a lot of large expanses of land lately, wide shots that take up nearly 1/4 of the sky. This time I wanted to find something that still allowed me to convey a [...]