The Weight of Water
Bozeman, Montana
2023

Bare Tree #99
Yachats, Oregon
2023

The texture pattern on this hunk of driftwood could pass for a 3D map of the chaotic swirls and currents in the ocean in places like that shown in June 24th’s POTD (minus the froth of course).

(This photo was supposed to be posted on June 25 but for some reason it did not make it live. So I’m posting it today instead, after having just discovered the problem. That’s the reason the Bare Tree sequence number #99 appears chronologically after eleven higher numbers–not that it matters or that you are actually keeping track!)

The Bird Watcher
Columbia River, Oregon
2023

An interesting outfit for a bird watcher; the van she was traveling in was even more so.

The Hieroglyphics of Deterioration
Bozeman, Montana
2023

A cryptic message on the side a mundane dumpster–spelled out in the hieroglyphics of deterioration.

Organic Gear
Dubois, Wyoming
2023

A clever cover for a water valve.

To the Point
Dubois, Wyoming
2023

Yipes! Stripes! #2
Bozeman, Montana
2023

If you’re in the right place at the right time and in the right frame of mind you can discover interesting compositions in mundane settings–just feet from my comfy patio chair at home in this case.

Yipes Stripes #1
Dubois, Wyoming
2023

Super Blue
Bozeman, Montana
2023

Even though I wasn’t really prepared for it (e.g. we were in town and I’d left my tripod at our cabin), I felt obligated to photograph the super blue moon two days ago since it is the last one for some umpteen years to come. With a high ISO setting (hence a faster shutter speed) and a deck railing to lean the camera on I got a fairly sharp image even using my 600mm telephoto lens. Somehow though this image seems somewhat incomplete, like it needs a kid on a bicycle ferrying an extraterrestrial being in the air across the front of the moon. ET phone home! Actually I did something similar some years ago, inspired more by nursery rhymes than movies though:

The Cowboy Jumped Over the Moon
Bozeman, Montana
2016

Rock Face #2
Cape Arago, Oregon
2023

Just like my post from a few days ago, it was not until looking at this image on the computer that I realized I’d been photo-bombed by a rock face again, this time on the lower bench of rock in the background of what I was really trying to photograph. (Can’t see it? It’s there, think big–the whole bench big–rather than small.)