Sunbeams on the Sphinx pair

Sunbeams on the Sphinx pairThis is a focus stack image shot at 120mm in medium format, meaning that everything from the close flowers to the distant mountains and sky are in sharp focus. I was standing in the Gravelly Mountains, not far from Black Butte, looking across a foreground of wildflowers to the Sphinx Mountain in the Madison Range. Wonderful sunbeams, accentuated by a touch of Canadian wildfire smoke, shined down all around. This is available as a fine, archival

I could image children playing in the yard and the clink of dishes in a sink

I found a lane through the snowy reeds that I could shoot through and stayed until I was too cold to continue running my camera

This portrait orientation photo

half an hour before sunrise

Horses gather below Sphinx Mountain in Montana's Madison River Valley on a windy

A buffalo jump

gorgeous clouds

a short-eared owl did its best to photobomb me

looking down on the valley floor far below and across to the Madison Mountains

The resolution of this composition is insanely high

Ice persists here well into July

a Montana sunrise can be breathtaking