Open Range
Central Wyoming
2015

Most of the time when I get stopped by cows on the highway, they’re being herded from one fenced pasture to another and feel out of place enough on the road that it’s easy to intimidate them with your vehicle’s bulk and get them to move out of the way. These open range cattle however, seemed to feel quite at home lounging on the road and were definitely not intimidated by vehicles–at least not by mine. I think I’d rolled within inches of them before they finally reluctantly sauntered out of the way. It made me glad I wasn’t driving through there at 65mph at night.

Beautiful Montana day today–good enough for our first dinner of the year outside on the deck at our mountain house.

Rust Abstract
Norris, Montana
2015

Free Ride $5
Norris, Montana
2015

This rather contradictory message was painted on some old equipment in a defunct mining district west of Norris, MT. It was put there, I presume, by a bored miner with a sense of humor or a poor understanding of the basics of economics.

Still Life With Wish Rock
Bozeman, Montana
2015

Another shot from around the house. What’s a wish rock? It’s a rock of a particular color that has a ring of a different color (sometimes more than one ring) going all the way around it. If you find one, you get to make a wish on it. You can’t really tell from the photo, but that’s a wish rock on the floor next to the vase–hence the title of the image.

Living Room Abstract
Bozeman, Montana
2015

Just messing around with my camera in the living room–and with the resulting image in Photoshop.

Get Back in Line
McAllister, Montana
2015

These five sandhill cranes were walking nicely in single file, but one broke ranks before I could get my camera zoomed in and focused to take the shot.

Three Light
Bozeman, Montana
2015

Wet Spring #10
Bozeman, Montana
2015

I guess it’s kind of a stretch to include this image in this series, but this is in fact a photo of our wet spring. It’s a composite image I made from a shot of raindrops hanging off the bottom of the railing on the balcony at our house. I’m not sure what prompted me to mess with the image this way, just following one of those wild hair impulses I guess.

Wet Spring #9
Bozeman, Montana
2015

This gargoyle guards the trail through our woods. He’s starting to look like he could use a little guarding himself–besides the missing paint, one of his feet is broken off.