Cougar Canyon ~ Montana Landscape Photography

The views yesterday from above Cougar Canyon in Woods Bay out to Flathead Lake before a...wait, that's right...a cougar came a little too close.  Sorry no photos of the cougar - we were in a bit of a rush to get off the precipice.

In Transit ~ Montana Documentary & Fine Art Photography

Sugar, my muse, inspires once again!

I found out this week that I have two images selected for inclusion in a group exhibition at The Kiernan Gallery entitled "In Transit".  One is of Sugar's shadow as we drove down the road here in Bigfork last year (shot with a Canon G12 point-and-shoot) and the other is from deep in the archives of a morning drive I took in a 1950 Hudson in Huntington Beach, CA in 1999 (shot with an Olympus point-and-shoot on Kodachrome slide film).

Remember it's not one's equipment but one's vision that counts.  As Cartier-Bresson stated so perfectly, photography is to put "one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis."

Wacky Racer

Palm Drive

Home Before Sandy ~ Montana Documentary & Editorial Photography

They say you can never go home again. As many of you know I grew up on the Jersey Shore, but I also lived for many years in NYC where my summers were spent playing at Jones Beach on Long Island. These images here are some of my favorite memories of these places from over the years that have been drastically effected and changed by Hurricane Sandy.

Aaron.  2010.  Seven Presidents Beach, Long Branch, NJ.

NJ cowboy.  1994.  Belmar, NJ.

My sister and niece.  2001.  Seven Presidents Beach, Long Branch, NJ.

Visiting home.  2010.  Asbury Park, NJ.

Howard Johnsons on the boardwalk.  1989.  Asbury Park, NJ.

On the boardwalk.  1989.  Asbury Park, NJ.

Wonder Bar Yappy Hour.  2009.  Asbury Park, NJ.

Wonder Bar Yappy Hour.  2009.  Asbury Park, NJ.

Golf Land.  1989.  Asbury Park, NJ.                                        Leonardo Motel.  1994.  Leonardo, NJ.

On the boardwalk.  2000.  Seaside Heights, NJ.

On the boardwalk.  2000.  Seaside Heights, NJ.

Getting electrocuted for fun.  2000.  Seaside Heights, NJ.

Breakfast with Mitch.  1988.  Long Beach Island, NJ.

Sailing to NYC.  1993.  New York, NY.

Lower Manhattan with square rigger ship in NY Harbor.  1992.  New York, NY.

Coney Island Sideshow.  1993.  Brooklyn, NY.

Coney Island Fun House.  1993.  Brooklyn, NY.

Stranger. 1993.   Rockaway Beach, NY.  

My sister visiting with our great uncle, Ludwig.  1993.  Far Rockaway, NY.

Visiting with my great uncle, Ludwig.  1993.  Far Rockaway, NY.

Marky Mark.  1993.  Jones Beach, NY.

At the pool.  1993.  Jones Beach, NY.

Paul.  1993.  Jones Beach, NY.

Music on the beach.  1993.  Jones Beach, NY.

Sugar at the tip of the Hook with her first horseshoe crab.  2005.  Sandy Hook, NJ.

Sugar at the tip of the Hook.  2005.  Sandy Hook, NJ.

Sugar exploring the bay side.  2008.  Sandy Hook, NJ.

Defiant Sugar on the beach.  2005.  Manasquan, NJ.

Family Fun at the Jersey Shore ~ Montana Documentary Photography

I continue to feel deeply nostalgic for what's been lost back east.  Here are some of my favorites I took the summer of 2005 at Seven Presidents Ocean Front Park in Long Branch, NJ,  when my sister and my niece and nephew came to visit from their home in Colorado.

Pre-flight Prep ~ Montana Dog & Travel Photography

Some of you might have been wondering about Sugar's pre-flight prep for her planetary travels as seen in this previous post here.

Alignment

Flaps

Stabilizer                                                                                                             Wing 

Brakes

Mental prep while held in place during strong winds

Letting me know she's ready

Orb of fuel

Checking wind speed and direction

Runway

Runway

Take off

Flight

Flight

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