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 [...]
Morel Booster
Saturday was quite a day. Reports came in a few days ago that morels had started showing up in the burn areas from last year’s forest fires in our region. This marks the transition from river-hunting to mountain-hunting, as well as to new species of these wonderful, crazy looking mushrooms. With my friend Andrew and [...]
Swan Pond
This scene came about north of Livingston on a very stormy day in the Shields Valley. Taken on the same photo drive as Thursday’s image, we were actually chasing a small hole in a large storm that had settled over the region. We followed it for about 100 miles, always trailing behind and [...]
On The Way
My friend Vicki and I recently took a drive to the Martinsdale Reservoir here in MT, a quiet place located as far from anything and everything as possible. As the title says, this image was taken on the way, although it might have been the way home. Low-hanging clouds, cows, a field…now that’s [...]
Hillside Meeting
Aspens are such a dignified tree. In every season they offer beauty to the landscape, jewels of contrast in an otherwise ‘conifer kingdom’…at least where I live. The West Boulder Valley is a great place to find scenes like this one and I’ll be visiting there quite a bit over the next few [...]
Last Stand
Another take on advancing shadows, this scene was along the Main Boulder route as I drove to the Natural Bridge. The clean, sharp edge of light gets me every time, and on this occasion it was no different. The shot had a high potential of being ‘blown out’, but a little drop in [...]
Bastion of Spring
Despite the fact that it’s been cold and rainy here in Montana for most of this spring, a few perfect days have shown their face and the landscape is fully alive with color…so color it is. I have to give part of the credit for this image to my buddy, Jay Wesler, and here’s [...]