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Window Still Life Bozeman, Montana 2011

I took this last fall at our mountain house but this time of year it seems more like a teaser for the promise of spring.]]>

Linear Housing Chicago, Illinois 2011

Whenever I get a possible candidate for a POTD while processing photos, I put a small uploadable copy of it in a special folder on my computer. Once they’re used as a POTD they get moved to a different folder so I can keep track of what’s left to use. I just checked the potential POTD folder and there are 381 images in there right now, dating back to as long ago as 2007. Some of these images I’ve lost interest in and won’t ever be used, but there are still a large number I still like quite a bit. So I’m going post a rather random assortment of those over the next few days.]]>

Judging Bunnies Bozeman, Montana 2012

These young folks were sitting there a long time waiting for the judge to finish with the bunny just out of view on the left. They were waiting when we first walked in the room and were still waiting when we left maybe ten minutes later. Four out of five of them looked like terminal boredom had already set in and, with no indication of movement on the part of the judge the whole time we were there, I suspect the lone survivor succumbed soon after we left.]]>

Cuddly Burgers Bozeman, Montana 2012

Beef from these Scottish Highland cattle is supposed to be quite tasty–superior to Angus in taste and texture according to some. Fortunately they aren’t particularly suitable to large commercial feedlot operations (something about mud balls forming on all that hair and the horns being a dangerous nuisance)—I’m not sure I could enjoy eating a burger or steak thinking it might be from such a cuddly looking creature.

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Hot Foot Bozeman, Montana 2012

At the horse shoe demonstration/competition at the Wild West Winterfest. None of the smithies were wearing gloves which just seemed odd around all that hot metal.]]>

Stability Bozeman, Montana 2012

This rider was demonstrating how steady and stable this horse is amid noisy and startling distractions. You can’t really see it in the photo because it’s blurred due to movement, but the guy was repeatedly cracking a bull whip in the air. The most the horse did while all this was going on was to raise a leg a little bit as shown in this photo. I’d have been even more impressed if the guy had dropped the reins while he stood in the saddle. However his not doing so probably had more to do with his own abilities rather than the horse’s.  That’s one rock-steady or else very deaf horse.]]>

Looking for Bids Bozeman, Montana 2012

Twenty-nine years ago I watched the horse auction at the Winter Fair in Bozeman for the first time. It’s called the Wild West Winterfest now, for marketing reasons I presume. Despite the catchy name change and the numerous cell phones and digital cameras that didn’t even exist back then scattered throughout the crowd, this year it looked pretty much like it did some three decades ago.]]>

Storm Clouds Rising Bozeman, Montana 2012

I took this a week ago a few hours before the last big nasty storm was supposed to hit town. The storm did arrive but it was more of a nudge or perhaps a slap rather than an actual hit. Now, there’s a new one predicted for later today. The sensationalist local weathermen are advertising it like it is a heavy-weight prize fighter but the way this winter is going it’s more likely to be just another powder-puff puncher.]]>

Outside In Bozeman, Montana 2012

When asked by the waiter if she wanted to dine inside or out, Maggie couldn’t quite decide…

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Crow Berries Bozeman, Montana 2012

There has been a large bunch (murder) of crows hanging around our neighborhood the last couple of weeks taunting me. They taunt me because they keep enticing me away from what I’m supposed to be working on to stalk them looking for good photos. But it seems just when I get out my camera they start to move off somewhere else. The other day in my studio I looked up and saw a tree across the street filled with about 100 crows. I grabbed my camera and headed outside on the driveway. But before I could get more than a few quick shots, they moved to a tree a few houses away. So, I walked down there and of course they flew a little farther down the block, so I followed them again. This cycle continued and before I knew it I was several blocks from home having left the house open because I was only stepping out for a minute. I got some potentially interesting shots but never what I should have been able to get if they’d only kept still in one place for a little while. The above photo was taken on a different day while waiting for the crows to do something interesting along the creek out the back of the house one afternoon, sort of a consolation prize for them never striking any interesting pose the whole time I was watching. That wait wasn’t particularly frustrating though since I did most of it while sitting in the Life is Good chair.]]>