Winter's Glow - Custom Edition Size:25x40 print only

Winter's Glow - Custom Edition Size:25x40 print onlyAt no time is mountain snow deeper in Montana than during early spring. After six months of cold weather, the alpine country is dressed almost entirely in white, patiently waiting while days grow longer and the weather slowly warms. For this photo, I snowshoed into Beehive Basin in the Spanish Peaks to take a wintry version of my summer photo, Celestial Rainbow. I camped in a "tree well," an area of less snow at the base of a massive white bark pine,

This was a difficult picture to edit due to so many levels of light

the background lost to a haze of ice crystals in the air

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winter morning

appears blue

This is an incredibly colorful photo whose color transitions are seamlessly smooth with detail that is hard to believe shows the land more than 20 miles from where I was standing

One of my favorite homesteads sits below the summer Milky Way

shining here even during this early-fall

but the sun is high enough in the sky to begin a process of slow snow melt each afternoon

the sugar maple turns beautiful shades of orange and red each fall

high-resolution panorama shot with Nikon's 70-200mm f4 at 200mm

built from the combination and replication of several thousand photographs