October 2020

POTD: Balanced Rock #1

Balanced Rock #1
Makoshika State Park, Montana
2020

I have photographed balanced rocks many times before, including at Makoshika; but, according to the POTD archives, I’ve never actually named such a photo eponymously. So here is #1 of not the first balanced rock I’ve ever photographed.

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POTD: Makoshika #26

Makoshika #26
Makoshika State Park, Montana
2020

We just got back from a camping trip to eastern Montana. The weather was perfect, the skies almost totally free of wildfire smoke, and there were very few people anywhere we went. At Makoshika State Park I was able to spend quite a bit of quality time with my camera–and the Fashion Queen too! So the upcoming POTDs for the next little while will be dominated by images from there. The lack of smoke and the sun getting lower in the sky as we head towards winter made for sharp contrast and dramatic lighting effects among the various formations in the park, conditions which really excite me visually. I’ve photographed here before (most recently six years ago) so this is really a continuation of a previous series of photographs.

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