Entries from Ann-alog: a pixel remix tagged with 'Montana'

Rodeo: first column for the Heritage Highway Gazette

Saddle bronc rider, Browning Montana Long time friends of US89 Christian Probasco and Beckie Gregg have launched a new publication about the southern Utah segment of the highway, the Heritage Highway Gazette. Christian writes for the Sanpete Messenger in...

Rocky mountain Bighorn at Glacier NP

Rocky Mountain Bighorn at Logan Pass, Glacier National Park The historic Going-to-the-Sun Road crosses the Contintental Divide in Glacier National Park and ends in the east in a junction with Highway 89. At the top of Logan Pass, bighorn sheep...

Victory! U.S. Highway 89 is off to the printer

Background image used in the cover of my book on U.S. 89 After making the last 22 tweaks today, I can finally say this: done. As in finished, burned to a DVD, down payment check written, U.S. Highway 89...

Best of 2008 on Highway 89

I wasn't going to blog a best-of for 2008, mostly because the end-of-year recap on my 2008 resolutions was already nagging at me. The national implosion of the publishing industry directly impacted my Highway 89 project, and by the end...

Eleven remixed is still 11 (Grain elevator, Fairfield MT)

Remixed in Photoshop with a seriously wonky curve I had grand intentions for a blog post about this image. Today it seems better to post it in 2008 and find a different image to illustrate the concept for a...

Book-building one image at a time: Wilsall MT Grain Elevator

Grain elevator in Wilsall, Montana In the process of getting ready to talk about my U.S. 89 project on Saturday, I decided to pull together the images I made since I last gave this talk in May to see...

Lake Grinnell, Glacier National Park

Glacial melt forms Lake Grinnell in Glacier National Park Lake Grinnell is about a 3 mile hike from Many Glaciers Hotel on the east side of Glacier National Park. Some people make a shorter hike out of it by...

East side of Logan Pass, Glacier NP

Toward Logan Pass, Glacier National Park The Highway 89 project marches on, this time to the top of Going-to-the-Sun Road. Here's a view from the east side, looking to the west in late afternoon. I wanted to shoot this...

Best and Worst in Choteau MT

Restored neon at the American Legion Hall, Choteau Montana I was standing in the middle of Highway 89 my first afternoon in Choteau, making a necessary photo for the project, when a gentleman emerged from the bar to ask...

Morning on the Rocky Mountain Front

Rocky Mountain Front sunrise, west of Bynum, Montana I'm heading home after three sunrises and sunsets in Teton County Montana. More photos once I get back to base camp....

Grain Elevator - Choteau MT

Grain Elevator, Choteau, MT Am I the only one who finds grain elevators monumental? Probably. I am fascinated with them, the little personal ones on the edges of a field, the huge Anheuser Busch barley facility south of here....

The crystal veil

Bronc rider at North American Indian Days 2007, Browning, Montana I once read an article (source forgotten, probably Birding) about a teacher preparing her preschoolers for an outing to the local aviary. Long before the field trip, each kid...

Neon - MT

Neon in Livingston Montana Here's one from the archives of the February 2007 MT trip. The fun part of making this photo was avoiding the snow slush splashing up from the passing cars. I've been using the short days...

Bighorn Sheep Portrait

Bighorn Sheep Portrait Metadata Nikon D2x 70-200 f/2.8 VR 1/250 s at f/3.5 ISO Speed Ratings 400 focal length 116mm...

Northern Sentries

Jay Polite Laber sculpture detail, north of Babb, MT on Hwy 89 One major target for the Montana trip was to make some images of Jay Polite Laber's fabulous sculptures marking the northern boundary of the Blackfeet Reservation. I...

Lake Josephine, Glacier National Park

Kayaking on Lake Josephine in Glacier National Park Paddling Lake Josephine again was a major target for the Montana Voyage 2007, objective completed on the last week of the trip. We first paddled it in 1996, carrying the boats...

Mountain Goats

Mountain Goat, Glacier National Park Yes, two people can live and sleep for 22 days out of a Toyota 4Runner and still enjoy one another's company and the road. We have designated every nook and cranny in the craft...

Why I don't have an IPhone

Gathering up my wits and gear for a 4 week journey to Montana, via Highway 89, of course. Second trip to Montana in 10 days, bad luck on the timing, but this one will cover the same 1200 miles in...

Guest blogger Millie on the Great Western Road Trip

Hay field below Glacier National Park, Montana Guest blogger Millie tells about our adventure: From Salt Lake City at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains and the edge of the Great Basin, to the end of Highway 89 at...

Why my D2X rocks - Browning, MT

Team roping at the North American Indian Days INFR rodeo in Browning, MT Millie's going to guest blog later this week and tell you about our adventures. Let me just say, 5 days, lots of miles, lots of shutter...