Wood Product Pile Bozeman, Montana 2013

I took this photo and yesterday’s on the same walk through town. I thought the similarities between the two were interesting; one a layered stack of wood and one a layered stack of a wood product. The cedar boards of course were much more neatly arranged than the boxes crushed and bundled for recycling. It’s also the case that the layers of boxes were actually oriented vertically. I just rotated the photo to make it more consistent with the structure of the cedar boards.]]>

Wood Pile Bozeman, Montana 2013

A neatly stacked pile of cedar boards. They looked too thick to be shingles and too short to be useful lumber. It may have been being used for firewood. Or, maybe it was just art.

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Another Day, Another Peak Bozeman, Montana 2013

 I don’t usually do two major hikes close together but opportunity and poor planning resulted in just that this week. Tuesday I climbed Ross Peak, the mountain in the background with the brightly lit rock face in the center of this photo. This photo, from yesterday, is of me on top of Sacajawea Peak, the highest point in the Bridger mountain range (9,665′). The plan was to follow the ridge in the background (except we would circle around Ross Peak) for 20 miles or so and end up just outside of Bozeman. We cut it short however after about 11 miles, hiking down at the Bridger Bowl Ski area in mid-afternoon. Good thing we did as an hour or so later a major thunderstorm moved through the area with torrential rains and many lightning strikes–not the best time to be on an exposed ridge above 8,000′. Below is a photo of one of my hiking partners for the day. ]]>

Sprout #2 Bozeman, Montana 2013

Given the heat wave that has engulfed us much has it has the rest of the West, our days of seeing this kind of juicy moisture on plants on a regular basis are gone for awhile it seems. It was nice while it lasted.]]>

Sprout Bozeman, Montana 2013

A rain dappled wildflower pushing up from the middle of the trail up behind our house.

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My collection of photos titled “Lives Real and Imagined” is appearing in the next issue of LensWork magazine. In this photo from the LensWork Facebook page editor Maureen Gallagher is checking proofs at the printer. The image she is viewing just happens to be one of mine.

(Photo and text below from the LensWork Facebook page.)

What is Mo looking for with the printer’s loupe? In the highlights we want that 1% dot to be clean and consistent; in the blacks we want black without blocking up; and in the text we don’t want to see any “bleeding” of the cover paint into the fine font. — at Hemlock Printers Ltd.