Patriot’s Dream #42
Gardiner, Montana
2015

I haven’t done a flag photo in some time. Even without the flag, the combination of the bull rider and the pedestrian sign makes this an interesting composition.

Nine Below #6
Yellowstone National Park, Montana
2015

Nine Below #5
Yellowstone National Park, Montana
2015

What is it about a bare stick or two protruding from the snow that gives a frigid feeling no matter what the temperature actually is?

I’m experimenting with a new blog format. It is optimized for better viewing on smart phones and other mobile devices. The mobile oriented format in fact does make for a better viewing experience on my smart phone but the visual look of the blog comes across as rather unrefined, especially when viewed on a computer screen rather than a mobile device. Unfortunately it doesn’t appear to be particularly customizable in ways the old format was, so it’s hard to change things much.

I’ll have to think about whether or not to keep to this new format or revert back to the old one. Any comments pro or con about this new look would be greatly appreciated–after all I’m not the target audience!

Nine Below #4
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
2015

Nothing like an ultra-clear, cold day with deep blue skies for viewing and photographing mountains–in this case Baronette Peak. The lack of haze in the air really brings out the details, even from far away.

Nine Below #3
Yellowstone National Park, Montana
2015

The morning sun shinning through the fir trees had yet warmed things up enough to melt the frost off the branches when I took this photo. But it didn’t take long for that to happen. By the time I’d finished skiing, none was visible.

Nine Below #2
Yellowstone National Park, Montana
2015

This hoar frost on a frozen stream looks like a landscape scene; a line of frosty trees below a sky of frosty stars and the milky way.

In the interest of full disclosure, I should say that by the time I drove up out of the Lamar Valley in Yellowstone a few miles to go skiing along this creek, the temperature had actually warmed to about 5 above zero, but I thought this little sequence of images of frost should have a common title.

Nine Below
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
2015

The sub-zero morning temps and the right amount of moisture in the air made for a nice looking coat of hoar frost on everything in the Lamar Valley when I drove through the other day.

Get Off My Road
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
2014

To paraphrase the old riddle: where does a 2,000 pound buffalo (bison for you stickers out there) stand? Anywhere he wants to.

Snow-Capped Peaks
Bozeman, Montana
2015