Reef Bass
colors and textures
I would have posted one of these in the "outside" thread, but they were shot a couple weeks ago and as such don't qualify.
I took two of my lovely daughters to visit Grandma in Montana. Working in the concrete, steel and glass canyons of San Francisco's financial district, I super appreciate Montana's "Big Sky", sense of space, natural beauty and abundance of animals with whom we've been sharing the planet for millenia but are now are wiping out at an alarming rate.
I don't know if it's the altitude, or the northern latitude, or the mountain storms, but there's something magical about the late afternoon and evening light that I don't see at sea level where I am. Several of these were taken after an afternoon storm darkened the skies, dumped, then cleared. Parts of the sky were covered in dark, ominous rain clouds while parts of the ground dappled with soft sun and the harshness of mid day light was no where to be seen.
The first five shots are shown in chronological order, with the first being about 3 hours earlier than the following four. The light as the sun was about to dip below the mountains kept getting softer and more golden.
Rain passing through. See the vulture?
A young buck in the alfalfa
Pivot watering alfalfa
Sunset on a quiet stretch of the Yellowstone River with caddis emerging
The most brilliant rainbow I've ever seen in my five plus decades
The next day at Yellowstone National Park. Late morning sun. Elk cows on the hill
The size and majesty of this bison bull doesn't really come across. What a magnificent beast!
I took two of my lovely daughters to visit Grandma in Montana. Working in the concrete, steel and glass canyons of San Francisco's financial district, I super appreciate Montana's "Big Sky", sense of space, natural beauty and abundance of animals with whom we've been sharing the planet for millenia but are now are wiping out at an alarming rate.
I don't know if it's the altitude, or the northern latitude, or the mountain storms, but there's something magical about the late afternoon and evening light that I don't see at sea level where I am. Several of these were taken after an afternoon storm darkened the skies, dumped, then cleared. Parts of the sky were covered in dark, ominous rain clouds while parts of the ground dappled with soft sun and the harshness of mid day light was no where to be seen.
The first five shots are shown in chronological order, with the first being about 3 hours earlier than the following four. The light as the sun was about to dip below the mountains kept getting softer and more golden.
Rain passing through. See the vulture?
A young buck in the alfalfa
Pivot watering alfalfa
Sunset on a quiet stretch of the Yellowstone River with caddis emerging
The most brilliant rainbow I've ever seen in my five plus decades
The next day at Yellowstone National Park. Late morning sun. Elk cows on the hill
The size and majesty of this bison bull doesn't really come across. What a magnificent beast!
