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Little Landscape #27
Makoshika State Park, Montana
2020

Little Landscape #27
Makoshika State Park, Montana
2020

Tipping Point (Balanced Rock #2)
Makoshika State Park, Montana
2020

No dramatic lighting on this one but I found the angle of lean to be quite dramatic. It gets my vote as the next balanced rock at Makoshika to move past it’s tipping point.

Balanced Rock #1
Makoshika State Park, Montana
2020

I have photographed balanced rocks many times before, including at Makoshika; but, according to the POTD archives, I’ve never actually named such a photo eponymously. So here is #1 of not the first balanced rock I’ve ever photographed.

Little Landscape #26
Makoshika State Park, Montana
2020

Little Landscape #25
Makoshika State Park, Montana
2020

Makoshika offered many opportunities to add to my Little Landscape series of photos. This “aerial” shot of some canyonland country covers about 10′ of ground, maybe a bit more.

Makoshika #26
Makoshika State Park, Montana
2020

We just got back from a camping trip to eastern Montana. The weather was perfect, the skies almost totally free of wildfire smoke, and there were very few people anywhere we went. At Makoshika State Park I was able to spend quite a bit of quality time with my camera–and the Fashion Queen too! So the upcoming POTDs for the next little while will be dominated by images from there. The lack of smoke and the sun getting lower in the sky as we head towards winter made for sharp contrast and dramatic lighting effects among the various formations in the park, conditions which really excite me visually. I’ve photographed here before (most recently six years ago) so this is really a continuation of a previous series of photographs.

A Work in Progress
Bozeman, Montana
2020

A month or so ago I placed this recently deceased pack rat in this pot in our yard where I can hopefully recover it when it is nothing but a skeleton. The plan was to photograph it at that point. But walking by it recently I got the idea it might make an interesting, although gruesome, still life in mid-decay. I suppose I could have been working on a whole sequence of photos documenting the decay process but for now I’m thinking one mid-process photo is perhaps more than sufficient.

Old and Not-So-Old
Bozeman, Montana
2020

Even before last month’s close call from a local wildfire, I’d been slowly working on improving the defensibility of our mountain house by cutting grass and sagebrush, as well as limbing and thinning trees. Well, I was slowly working on it before the recent fire, the speed of my efforts has increased significantly since there. As a result I’ve been creating a good stack of firewood for our woodstove during the cold weather. This part of the stack shows some of what I cut earlier this summer stacked on top of some from last year. The old vs not-so-old moniker applies both to how recently they were cut and the age of what was cut, i.e., smaller trees this year, larger last year.

Dreamweaver
Missouri Breaks, Montana
2020

This critter may or may not be responsible for weaving the dreamcatcher in the POTD from two days ago.