Soda Butte Creek, YNP

Soda Butte Creek & Abiathar Peak

Shot from Barronette Meadows.

This slightly overexposed image was shot with a Canon Powershot point & shoot camera, model S30, with a 37mm circular polarizer attached. Image stabilization provided by a true multi-tasker; the Leki (Sierra model) trekking pole/monopod/wading staff combo. Right after this shot was taken I drove into Cooke City and knocked off a liquor store. And that's no no bravo sierra.

ISO 50, f 2.8, 1/250 second exposure and a slight tweaking of the contrast during post processing.

Sustenance provided by Helen's Corral Drive-In Burgers in Gardiner, Montana. Bear Spray provided by Counter Assault.

The Lost Horizon

Shriner Mountain - Millheim, Pa.

This shot was exposed from the northern flank of Second Mountain in May of 2009 after fishing the evening rise on Penns Creek. No filters or fotoshop were used in the making of this image. I shot this one in the RAW format, but I put my pants back on as soon as I was done. I swear on a stack of bibles.

30 second exposure, f16, ISO 400, tripod & automatic shutter release. Why? Because that's how the pro's do it.

Fan Creek - Yellowstone National Park

Fan Creek - July, 2006

A small but productive headwater tributary of the Gallatin River flows through expansive meadows and spring fed wetlands at 7,500' in the southern end of the Gallatin Range. Watch out for the giant anacondas. They seem to come out of nowhere back here.

Canon 17-40mm L Series glass complimented with a 77mm Tiffen wide angle circular polarizer mounted on a Canon EOS 300D SLR. The whole shootin' match is supported by a carbon fiber set of sticks & pan head built by Velbron. Aperture of f 7.1 with a shutter speed of 1/125 seconds @ ISO 100.

 Headwaters

The RKO Road

Snake River Plain, Wyoming

The month of September in WyMont is probably my most favorite time of the year in my most favorite place on the planet. The tourist and biting insects are mostly gone, the kids are all back in school and the weather is still intoxicatingly pleasant. Such was the case last September when my good friend Greg G, his brother Gerry and myself found ourselves geeking around the RKO Road in western Wyoming while in hot pursuit of a few Snake River fine spotted cutthroats.

The RKO Road is a 14 mile long rough & rutted jeep trail in Grand Teton National Park that runs from Signal Mountain down to the old Bar BC Ranch and parallels the west bank of the Snake River along the way. The "road" was originally hacked out of the sagebrush bench back in the 1940's by RKO Studios so they could film Hollywood Westerns on location in Jackson Hole. Nothing remains of that enterprise today but the road itself and a couple of old corrals from the Bar BC.

I shot the above image during the early evening of September 7, 2009 with a Canon 17-40mm, f4 wide angle L Series Lens mounted on a Canon EOS 40D digital SLR toggled into manual mode with an aperture of f11 at 1/80 second, ISO speed 200, and a Galen Rowell/Singh-Ray 3-stop (hard) graduated neutral density filter mounted in a Cokin "P" size holding bracket. The whole works was mounted on a Manfrotto 190XPROB tripod with a 360 degree Manfrotto 484RC2 ball socket swivel head. I was wearing Fruit of the Loom underwear at the time.