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Capturing Neowise 2020
July 22, 2020
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July 2020 seemed occupied by tracking and photographing Comet Neowise as it swung by the earth and sun. In defiance of fears that it would disintegrate, the comet came from behind the sun and became visible to our eyes.
I ended up taking a lot of photos (trust me, you will never see most of them) and in the process learned more about how to captur...
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Vipond Park Montana -- High Mountain Color
June 18, 2020
After reading a Montana Standard article about the wildflower potential of Vipond Park in Montana's Pioneer Mountains, Mary and I drove up there on June 12, 2020 to check it out. We found the park to be gorgeous and home to thousands of small flowering plants. USFS signs at the park's northern edge suggested that we were likely early for the wildfl...
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The Grand Vista - smoothing out the flow
June 06, 2020
Mary and I traveled the Pioneer Mountains Scenic Byway (south from Wise River to Montana Highway 278 west of Dillon). Our goal was to check out the high parks and meadows in hopes of finding alpine flowers. The drive is one of the best that southwest Montana has to offer and in many ways reminds you of driving through a national park, except that y...
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Why did the sand hill crane colt cross the road?
May 23, 2020
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Last Saturday I decided to try for some bird photos and headed over into the Jefferson River Valley south of Whitehall to see what could be seen. I came across this Sand Hill Crane, peacefully foraging in a field about 50 feet off the road. I stopped for photos and we seemed to get along famously. The crane finding supper; I getting some good photo...
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A little Drama
May 12, 2020
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On my trip last week to French Creek (over the Mill Creek Pass and south towards Wise River),
waves of clouds moved across the sky as the sun settled in the west. I mostly watched the southern sky, hoping that it would open up in time to see some good light.
The sky cleared just as the sun reached the horizon and let some golden light into the Fr...
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