POTD

Beyond the Breaking Point
Moser Creek, Montana
2017

Winter Shapes #3
Moser Creek, Montana
2017

Winter Shapes #2
Moser Creek, Montana
2017

Winter Shapes #1
Moser Creek, Montana
2017

I seem to have banished all the negativity from my brain, for now anyway and feel the need to move on to  a more soothing subject. The heavy snow we received recently provided just the vehicle to achieve that.

Turmoil in the Fourth Estate
Bozeman, Montana
2017

Fear’s Dark Harvest
Bozeman, Montana
2017

Everything is Broken
Bozeman, Montana
2017

Broken hands on broken ploughs,
Broken treaties, broken vows,
Broken pipes, broken tools,
People bending broken rules
Hound dog howling, bull frog croaking,
Everything is broken

 –Bob Dylan

False Demons
Bozeman, Montana
2017

Another detour to the dark side.

Hate Takes Root
Bozeman, Montana
2017

I don’t usually let my photography drift very far in the depressingly negative direction; for one thing, that’s not really my general nature (cynical yes, but not depressingly negative). But yesterday I started messing with this photo of weathered roots on a dead tree that had been exposed by an eroding riverbank and it unintentionally started looking very dark and sinister. So I went with the mood, accentuating it and adding the scowling eyes in the center. The name came easily after reading the day’s news from Washington.

As a point of interest, the eyes came from a gorilla I photographed at a zoo some years ago. There are also other features that, depending on your imagination, could be construed to look like other beings. I see a scary, almost goat-like face and an associated pair of sinister looking hand. As the acronym generation would say though, YMMV.