As the smoky, hazy days of summer drag on, remembering a spring morning roaming around the cattle country east of Lincoln, Montana…
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Taking a moment in a peaceful place where the only thing you can hear is the wind.
Looking out across the hills of western Montana on a cloudy afternoon…
Big Sky Country on a summer afternoon…
Just another summer day in Montana…
Spending some quality time with the cows among the hills of western Montana…
Shot with a Nikon D7000 camera, Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 lens, ISO 100, f/4, 1/60 second exposure.
The wide open spaces of Montana…
Watching the cows in northwestern Montana on a cloudy spring afternoon…
Open range country in western Wyoming on a winter afternoon…
Open range country and the Swan Mountains, western Montana.
A lot of photographers in my area spend their time at the national parks – Glacier and Yellowstone. There are great things to photograph there but I often like to see what I can find in more ordinary places. This is just open range land that goes for miles and miles. It can be a great place to wander and explore – I like places where it’s just you, the land, the sky, the hills, and the only sound you hear is the wind…
I plan to spend a large part of the summer out on the road with my camera. At each location I shoot what I like, how I like to shoot it, but I’m also challenging myself to look at things in a different way. This was shot on a ridge overlooking open range land south of Anaconda, Montana. Usually I would focus (focus – get it? – I made a photography funny…) on the wide shots, the mountains, the sky… and ignore small stuff like wildflowers. So this is a different take on the scene.
(Fun fact about the purple flower thingies. They are poisonous. According to the “Montana Plant Life” website they are long-spurred lupines. Sheep that eat them can die, and cows that eat them can produce calves with birth defects.)
