Wednesday, September 19, 2012

I love Montana

These are some pictures that remind me that i love living in montana because it is so gorgeous and you can only go a little ways and get great pics of mountains or go in your backyard and find fantastic views.
I'm not sure which mountains these are but i love that you get a sense of the vastness of montana and the clouds are at the top of the mountains which make it mysterious. i think this pic maybe could use some small lightening touches but otherwise im pleased.
This picture is at red lodge by the campgrounds or East Rose Bud and when i first saw this picture i thought i should have zoomed out to get a mirroring effect.  while i do wish i had another picture with the full wide angle view, i still love this one and keep going back to it for some reason. i think the upside down illusion is alluring to the eye especially since the top is missing somewhat.
 This is also at East Rose Bud i believe and i love this picture with the pretty blues and the mountain just looks massive.  it's humbling to see how small we really are.
 This picture was in East Rose Bud from the backyard of the cabin we were staying in.  This is what i mean when i say i love montana because look at what we get just outside our doors.  This picture i think is a good rule of thirds example because the main focus of the picture is in the top with the mountain but you also have the water in the bottom which is most interesting at the most foreground since it is lighter there.  the picture is also cut vertically into thirds as well but the channel that the water follows goes around a bend in almost the center of the photo.  all of these characteristics make this picture very interesting to look at. 
East Rose Bud again.  this also is cut into thirds with water, mountains, and sky horizontally, and mountains, light on sky and water, and mountains vertically.  the green plays in nicely with the blues and the light plays in nicely with the darks and the mountains opposite of each other draw to the center of the photo which draws the viewer in. 
East Rose Bud...This place is so gorgeous with so many fantastic different views.  I like how this picture has so much foreground and then awesome mountains in the background with great blue on the sky and water.  the touch of clouds in the sky adds a bit of personality too in my opinion. 
East Rose Bud.  i wish the sky was blue here but you cant have everything right?  i love the diagonal lines here.  the two mountains cross each other for a great effect.

I dont know where this was...some moutain pass somewhere in montana is my best guess from my recollection.  i like this because it is so big with a little bit of interest inthe foreground, middle ground and background.  blue sky is nice but oh well.   
I love this picture which is right across the street from my dads house.  the clouds being so interesting and colorful is a great attribute plus the fence in the middle is very interesting.  and when you look into the plains you see farming and horses with green and tan grasses as well as a little bit of some hills on the horizon.  all together i love this picture and i am so pleased with how the angle of the fence added to it. 
This is at Wild Bill Lake in Red Lodge Outside of the campgrounds.  i love that the mountain looks so huge here.  the clouds being so low is a great reason it looks so big and they add so much to the pretty blue sky.  the blue in the sky is more bright than the blue on the water which is not usually my problem so its nice to have that reversed for once.   
East Rose Bud.  It was getting very dark when i took this picture so its not of the greatest quality.  what i love about this one is the composition of it.  blue in the sky, and blue one the water.  snow in the mountains and clouds in the sky.  diagonal angles and mountain ranges...all great attributes to make this picture one of my favorites. 
This is one of the pictures i was trying to find from Wild Bill Lake at the Red Lodge campgrounds.  we made it to the lake super early in the morning. (so the trick about getting to your shoot before the sun rises works.)  The fog had not yet risen and it was traveling onto the lake from the mountains the whole time we were there.  if you look at the picture two above this one you will see just how dense this fog was because it is hiding this massive mountain right behind it.  it was so majestic.  i hope i get to capture another picture like this one some day and get more vivid colors since this was taken with my Canon point and shoot. 
This picture is a few years ago driving to Shepherd i believe.  The cumulous clouds were fantastic and the perpendicular lines added a great contrast in green. im very happy with this photo that i was moving so fast while taking and it turned out great still.
-KEE

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