Prairie Dreams Size and Medium:48x60 archival photo paper print

Prairie Dreams Size and Medium:48x60 archival photo paper printA lone tepee stands on the edge of the Missouri River Breaks in Eastern Montana. I purposefully left a tiny bit of color in the foreground to give this photo a sense of age. It wasn't long ago when the tepee was the main form of shelter in this country, providing an efficient, portable home to thousands of Native Americans. Great herds of bison roamed this land, grizzly bears traveled up and down the Eastern Missouri, and wolves howled here at night.

natural mix of lupine and paintbrush with a wonderful summer sky of soft clouds above

pink pouch

took several hundred 40-second exposures with just 1/10th of a second pause between each one

known for its red rock

I captured this scene in the final moments of light when the air was full of golden hues and the rainbow completed its nearly full arch over the river and Absaroka Beartooth Mountains

the water will cut off the bends and flow straight

Winter in the Madison is a quiet time of year as the windswept lands harbor great elk herds that have migrated many miles to take advantage of exposed grass

From the most colorful insect in the world

homestead cabin in Southeastern Montana

For this photo

the moon rises beyond eastern color during a December evening

but it happens