POTD

Ajo Gas #2 Creston Junction, WY 2012

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Station of the Crosses Creston Junction, Wyoming 2012

A newer, but no more successful gas station at Creston Junction than the one from yesterday. As far as I know Michael Blessing has not painted this one.]]>

Ajo Gas Creston Junction, Wyoming 2012

Granted this location is right at an exit on busy I-80, but I wouldn’t think it would be a huge attraction to artists. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t but shortly after taking this photo I was perusing the web site of Michael Blessing, a painter from Bozeman who I like a lot, in fact we own one of his paintings, and came across this:

OJO Gas, Wyoming Michael Blessing

He spells it differently than I do (I’m pretty sure I spelled it correctly), but otherwise the same subject, even nearly the same view of it at the same time of the day and a similar looking sky. Weird coincidence. See more of Michael’s work here.]]>

Spreading Out Bozeman, Montana 2012

The wider view of yesterday’s cotton ball cloud, as seen from our deck.

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Mean Cotton Bozeman, Montana 2012

It seems odd that clouds shaped like cotton balls can come across so threatening, but during fire season in a drought (and tornado season any time) they sure are.

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The Shortest Distance Between Two Points National Bison Range, Montana 2012

An odd, seemingly unnecessary jog in the road circumvented by a two-track shortcut.]]>

Upstaged National Bison Range, Montana 2012

I was taking a quick series of photos of this coyote as he passed by when the auto focus on my camera decided this Western Meadowlark was of more interest, focusing on it rather than the intended subject. It turned out it was right; this was the most noteworthy photo of the whole sequence.]]>

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Brooks Jensen, editor of LensWork magazine, discussed my Opus Corvus images in his LensWork Daily post today. You can see it here.]]>

Protecting Your Young Steamboat Springs, Colorado 2012

Unlike the last two, this photo doesn’t remind me of anything from popular culture, but it does have it’s own metaphorical interpretation–the inward curving petals (or whatever they are) covering the seed bed below suggests a mother protecting her young.]]>