A tree and the forest reflected in Lava Lake, MT.

The Dgrin photography forums run a series of challenges and I’ve entered my first one with the shot below. It’s nothing all that great but it’s a start.

I shot this last week from the top of the parking garage in downtown Bozeman and failed to see the interesting graffiti in the background. Oh well. B&W Film.

I’ve decided that, after a long period of inactivity on this blog because I’ve been so busy with work and skiing, I’m going to try to make one new photo post per day. Nothing special, just one picture I’ve taken per day. I think this will encourage me to shoot more and will help me work on this site more. Starting tomorrow.

I posted briefly a while ago with a panorama taken at Big Sky on the last week of February. The post detailing our run is here and the rest of the pictures are below.

Tucker at the end of the traverse scoping out our line

Skiing above The Bowl and Turkey Traverse

Tucker charging down Gully 1

Tucker and I skied Big Sky on Saturday and made all of one run during the three and a half hours we were there. We took lifts to the top of Lone Peak and then skied down the Otter Traverse to the top of the Dictator Chutes. We put tracks down one of these chutes and into the fresh snow below them, down the The Bowl, cat-tracked it to Buffalo Jump, and then down War Dance to the base area. We descended about 4,000 feet on this massive run, and coupled with the altitude and the intensity of the skiing we were both two wiped out to continue.

I shot a panorama from the top of the chute that we skied and have stitched it roughly together below. More photos are to come.

About a month ago I blogged about the Outdoor Pursuits Photography Contest. Well, the results came in and I won 1st Place in the Action/Adventure Category with my picture of Sam skiing some really deep powder back in mid-October. Along with a fancy ribbon I won a $20 Northern Lights gift card and a pair of Bridgedale hiking socks.

Last week I managed to secure a beacon for a couple of days of skiing off of Bridger’s vaunted Ridge.

Tuesday, Clare, Taylor, and I hiked up from the top of the Slushman’s lift to ski some day old powder down to The Fingers. The view from the top of the Ridge was stunning. The Bridger range isn’t just one long single ridge of mountains, it’s several ranges sitting right next to each other. I will never tire of the view of snow on the mountains, especially from on top of those mountains.

Repping BCA, Slushmans lift below.

Taylor with the multiple ridges of the Bridger Range beyond.

The skiing wasn’t too bad, either. God I love Slushmans.

Our second week assignment for photography class was to toy around with F-stop and depth of field, two aspects of photography that I’ve always been interested in. I brought my camera to PetCo and shot some birds.

Today, I printed my first black and white print while part of the MSU Photography program. I’ve been processing and printing black and white film for the better part of three years now, but MSU’s equipment, protocol, and processes are slightly different (and apparently slightly less reliable). All of which resulted in a pretty “interesting” (read: messed up) print.

It’s quite dark, which resulted from the odd filter system that MSU uses in their enlargers. When the enlarger I was using broke (the cable which connected the enlarger to the light timer refused to stay plugged in) I switched enlargers and forgot to take the filter with me. Also, there is either a chemical splotch or a dust mark in the upper left. Oh well.