Field Notes

Walking with My Camera: Leaves and Plastic-Finding Beauty and Action

It has been awhile since I’ve posted. I took this photograph of Grey Wolf peak, part of Mission Range, on September 30 while out walking near my home in Northwest Montana. That storm brought about six inches of snow to our place, not much compared to Browning where they had four feet of snow. Today …

Walking with My Camera: Big Knife Creek Treasures

I regularly walk by Big Knife Creek, a small waterway on the Flathead Reservation of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in Western Montana. I photograph this area most days of the year. Recently I went into a more overgrown part of the water shed. This part of the creek is darker but when the …

Walking with My Camera: Sunlight Inside Big Knife Creek

On the day I was shooting these images there was a small glow of sunlight concentrated in Big Knife Creek right next to a rock. The light stayed in a general area but was alive with the movement of the water. One of the colors of the light was a luminous chartreuse. The tiny spaces …

Walking with My Camera: Jocko River & Big Knife Sun Light

It is a strange small yet vast journey to stare at the water running in Big Knife Creek and try to capture sun lines–the tiny lines feel so big–views of the energy of the sun and water written out in wild brilliant script. I also seek images of circles within the water. Can you see …

Now Showing at Bigfork Design in Bigfork, Montana

“A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.”  ~ Lucy Larcom It was a pleasure to bring my photography to the recently opened Bigfork Design gallery yesterday and work with the owner Kathleen Hennen to hang a show including some new water images. In addition …

Walking with My Camera: Big Knife Creek Water Lines

A couple days ago it was over cast and rather dark in one of places where I like to take photographs of the water in Big Knife Creek near where I live in Northwest Montana. I have a small camera, Panasonic Lumix ZS100, that I love. It has some limitations with the attached lens (25-250mm) …