House on a Hill first winter

House on a Hill first winterAn August sunrise marks the start of a hot day at one of my favorite Eastern Montana locations. I've photographed this beautiful homestead under the Milky Way, beneath the full moon, and now during daybreak. There's something both haunting and beckoning to me about it, both sad and hopeful.

The sun kisses goodnight to a meadow of lupines high in Montana's Gravelly Mountains during the peak of the wildflower bloom

sits under a beautiful

Young great horned owl chicks aren't sure about the man and his camera - a great cyclops - checking them out

deep-woods scene at daylight and features a huge stump covered with large shelf fungi

This is available in a number of sizes

ready to hang at 20"x30"

Perfectly adapted to the harsh winters on the edge of the Rocky Mountains

long after I finished shooting

During an afternoon walk along a partially-frozen creek in SW Montana

I love this mountain range

the high country of Wyoming's Bighorn Mountain Range is as pretty as anywhere on Earth

and less than a month after I took this photo deep snows blanketed this alpine scene