Split Sun
Bozeman, Montana
2015
Lately we’ve had a number of cloudy days where, just at sunset, the clouds break up to let a few rays of sun shine through for a few minutes before it turns dark and provide some rather spectacular lighting on the mountains.
Red Aura
Bozeman, Montana
2015
It’s not often that I find a scene with subtle color that I am really attracted to that also doesn’t work, albeit differently, in black and white. I tried converting this one to black and white and it just didn’t do anything for me at all.
I realized that this image reminded me of, and perhaps was heavily influenced by, some of Elliot Porter’s more subtle photos of tangled woodlands that I was really drawn to in the late 60s and 70s. Here are two examples:
Redbud Tree in Bottomland
Eliot Porter Photo
1968
Red Osier
Eliot Porter photo
1957
Put Upon
OTO Ranch, Montana
2015
On the upside, that big branch is probably helping keep the roof from blowing away in a high wind.
The Back Door
OTO Ranch, Montana
2015
The OTO Ranch was the first dude ranch in the state of Montana. The name comes from the owner’s involvement in Ordo Templi Orientalis,. or O.T.O a religious group out of, not surprisingly, California.
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Exposed
Cedar Creek, Montana
2015
For a plant to take root and attempt to thrive in the middle of a road is a dicey proposition at best, but death by erosion is not high on the list of expected survival threats.
If you are a serious photographer, especially of an older vintage, then the Zone System and step wedges are familiar concepts to you. It turns out that having a light bar of eight separate bulbs above the sink in your bathroom and a well-placed door can provide a real-life, albeit slightly imperfect and incomplete, illustration of a step wedge.
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Dualities #11
Idaho Falls, Idaho
Bozman, Montana
2006/2015
When I took the photo on the right of the weeping birch tree the other day, it immediately brought to mind the photo on the left of asphalt, tar, and snow that I took some nine years ago. I guess that says something about how I tend to look at the physical world; not so much in terms of actual content but instead as patterns of shape, lines, and textures.
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Rock Garden
North Cottonwood Creek, Montana
2015
winter sunlight shines
among the scattered boulders
firmly rooted tree
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Losing Ground
North Cottonwood Creek, Montana
2015
The creek has been steadily eating away at the footing for this tree. It’s beyond caring at this point though.
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