Late Light in Beehive Basin Size and Medium:20x60 ready-to-hang aluminum

Late Light in Beehive Basin Size and Medium:20x60 ready-to-hang aluminumThe last sun touches the tops of mountains above Beehive Basin near Big Sky, MT. Indian paintbrush fill the foreground of this dramatic scene of light and shadow. I captured this image is late July when I first realized that the days were once again growing shorter. Summer isn't more than a blink in this alpine country where, before the end of August, there will be a dusting of snow. This is a 3: 1 panorama, three times as long as it is tall. It's

tired after the rut

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and hadn't completely melted when I took this photo toward the end of the month

I shot this image just after sunset in early January when a temperature inversion pushed dense fog onto the ground for a couple of days

the filtered disk of sun

This photograph features Emigrant Peak

and the Spanish Peaks' highest summit

It's a scene worth the burning legs and shortness of breath that comes with hauling heavy equipment up to the very top of a mountain in the Crazy Range - this island of mountains north of the Yellowstone River

providing movement and a sense of foreboding

orange aspen trees glow with an inner luminance at the edge of a boulder field in the Absaroka Beartooth Mountain Range

Summit Lake

The sky has a beautiful touch of wintery blue in the flowing clouds