Views From the Pond #20
Bozeman, Montana
2021
While the foot of snow we received in mid-October melted quickly and we went back to Indian Summer, much of the color that was in the trees and brush around the pond ending up decorating the pond surface instead.
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Views From the Pond #19
Bozeman, Montana
2021
The best fall weather and color here in years was interrupted briefly the middle of October by a foot of snow. It’s quite typical to get snow in October in this area but to get a foot during the first snow of the season is. But it was short lived and we quickly went back to warm weather and bright colors.
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Views From the Pond #18
Bozeman, Montana
2021
This photo was taken pretty much at the peak of the fall color around our house.
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Sculpture Garden
American Prairie Reserve, Montana
2021
These orderly groups of corral panels spread out across the prairie reminded me of a similar but more elegant and purposeful sculpture garden here in Montana, that at Tippet Rise.
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Accidental Expressionism
American Prairie Reserve, Montana
2021
Framed in my camera’s viewfinder, this random smear of goop of some kind on the highly textured, rusted steel side of a corral panel formed a pleasing (to me anyway) expressionist abstract composition.
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Bullpen Abstract
American Prairie Reserve, Montana
2021
It takes a pretty hefty structure to secure a wild bison. These panels stand maybe eight feet high and are made of heavy steel.
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Cloud Chamber #3
American Prairie Reserve, Montana
2021
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Cloud Chamber #2
American Prairie Reserve, Montana
2021
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Cloud Chamber
American Prairie Reserve, Montana
2021
Even though I did statistical work for several nuclear scientists for a number of years, my knowledge of particle physics is stunningly minimal. Still, when I saw these weld marks on a corral panel, for some reason my mind immediately thought “cloud chamber.” I believe that reaction was not due to my work with the physicists; rather it was the result of my mind going back to some bit I read or heard about in science class, probably in junior high school.
It turns out that most cloud chamber photographs have a black background and white streaks instead of the reverse as is shown here. That means, I suppose, that I’ve been having negative thoughts about cloud chambers all these years.
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