Bare Tree #94
Bighorn Canyon, Montana
2022
I’ve walked by and photographed this dead tree several times before. It’s starting to feel like an old friend, one who’s outfit might, on a dark and storm night, come across as a really spooky Halloween costume.
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Bare Tree #93
Bighorn Canyon, Montana
2022
This is an example of fitting (i.e. cutting) a round tree into a square peg, into a round (guard rail post) hole.
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Idle Threats
Bighorn Canyon, Montana
2022
If you’ve ever had a dog, then you have likely had incidents where your dog sees some unfamiliar object in a familiar environment and starts barking at it, thinking it to be, I suppose, a threatening critter of some sort. I never felt like barking at this unusual dachshund/giraffe shaped stick that was in the parking lot near where we were camping but I did do a double-take every time it came across my vision.
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Context is Everything
Lincoln, Montana
2022
This is a sculpture by Steven Siegel titled Hill and Valley. Siegel is a well-known artist and I’ve seen his similar works in a number of places from Sun Valley, Idaho to Kansas City, but this one appears against the most fitting background of any off them I think. Context might not actually be everything, but it’s a lot!
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Slow Burn #2
Bozeman, Montana
2022
O.K. raise your hand if you didn’t flash on a cow skull, complete with horn, when you first glanced at this photo.
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Slow Burn
Bozeman, Montana
2022
One of the other processes besides growth that occurs more slowly in arid country compared to wet country is decay. I’ve taken any number of photographs of this log up the mountain behind our house over the last 40 years and will continue to do so I suppose. It changes over time due to rot, but slowly, and more importantly (to me anyway) very interestingly.
I’ve taken a bit of liberty in the naming of this photograph. Rot is a form of oxidation, as is fire. The two processes differ in terms of speed of course but also the causes of the oxidation. But I think, if you (figuratively) squint your eyes properly while considering the issue, thinking of rot as a form of burning can come to make sense. After all, if you can burn calories…
Slow Beauty
Bozeman, Montana
2022
These rolls of used field fence have been stacked up for years down in the coulee behind our garage where such things tend to end up, stored for potential future use. In some parts of the country, this kind of “junk” would be very quickly covered with vegetation. (I’m thinking in particular of kudzu here.) But in our arid Montana climate, this growth process spans years rather than months. So I appreciate the local foliage finally starting to beautify the place. Now I will be reluctant to move the fencing even if I find a need for it.
Escape Pod #1
Bozeman, Montana
2022
My latest composite image effort. Lots of smaller details in this one (it was designed to print large) so it might be worth your while to zoom in and pan around a little.
