Day and Night butterfly

Day and Night butterflyThe winter full moon sets behind Lone Peak as seen from the top of Levinsky Ridge on the east side of the Gallatin River. In the dark before dawn, I snowshoed a few miles up to a prominent cliff that lends one of the best views of Lone Peak, albeit from about 12 miles away. As low clouds traced the river far below, the rising sun behind me lit higher clouds around the Lone Peak just the moon sank out of sight. I shot this as a panorama with a borrowed

hunting in the skies during evening

After more than nine months of dormancy

before the end of August

I purposefully left a tiny bit of color in the foreground to give this photo a sense of age

A sundog or stunted rainbow appears directly over Sphinx Mountain in Montana's Madison Range in the moments immediately before sunset

In this 6-panel

and shipping to the lower 48 is included in the purchase price

both printed a fine aluminum and ready to hang

he waded upstream half a mile before finding an easy place to climb out and begin searching for grass in the sub-zero morning

while Indian Paintbrush fill a foreground of wildflowers near Beehive Basin

and he made no qualms about landing inside my truck and helping himself

This is available in four sizes on archival photo paper as well as ready-to-hang aluminum