Frozen Size:16x20 print only

Frozen Size:16x20 print onlyClouds form a heart above a lone tree on the prairie of Central Montana. This is a beautiful black and white photo with a wavy, finger painted feel to the clouds and good detail in the wind sculpted snow.

I was able to lose the background and focus entirely on this great spangled fritillary

high in Montana's Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness

and clothing

I did so with the satisfied feeling of having captured a little of the world during a beautiful time

Castle Valley

mountain goats fed behind me

I used a motorized equatorial mount to take a pair of 4-minute exposures of the scene as soon as it was dark enough

It's offered here on frameless aluminum for a eye-popping look and sleek

A lone tree stands deep in Yellowstone National Park during winter

his fur soft and sleek during the last seconds of sunlight

Growing up where I watched hundreds of family farms go under

overcast day