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Near the End of Summer Intensive
Spin and Zoom

These photos were some of the last I took during the Summer Intensive course at the RMSP.  A brief but intense afternoon thunderstorm had just passed over while some friends and I were out eating sushi for dinner.  After the rain let up, those of us with cameras spent some time shooting the departing thunderheads…

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North Hills
Light and Shadow

The hills just to the north of town are basically open grasslands with a few pine trees popping up here and there.  But, if you head up there on a beautiful day with a bright blue sky and puffy white clouds, you can get some really nice shots.  The first image above is one of…

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Fort Missoula
Old Train

On an early August weekend, I rode my bike across town to Fort Missoula to watch and shoot a rugby tournament.  The tournament was scheduled to run from noon to around 3pm on that particular Sunday, but when I got there at around 1:30pm, I discovered it was already over.  Since, I had ridden all…

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Magic Arm
Biking

I thought I’d take a break from my summer recap and show you some pictures I took this afternoon. If you saw my Twitter post this afternoon, you might be wondering what a Manfrotto Magic Arm is.  It’s easier to send you to a product page than it is to try and describe it, so…

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Lolo Pass
Straight Up

Towards the end of Summer Intensive, I headed up to Lolo Pass, just across the Idaho/Montana border, to try and get some trail pictures for my final project.  I only got a couple of trail images I liked, including the one in the lower right up above, but I got some other good images from…

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Kayaking Downtown Missoula
Kayak Competition

Every Thursday in July, they hold a kayaking competition at Brennan’s Wave in downtown Missoula.  This was the last one of the summer.  They use the big blue raft in the middle of the first picture to take spectators out to the island in the middle of the river.  I think they’re nice enough to…

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My Favorite Landscape From This Summer
Soft Light

The top image is my favorite landscape photo from this summer.  I just wish I had thought to take multiple exposures so I could have stitched them together in a true panorama.  Then, I could print it huge.  But, I didn’t.  I just cropped a single frame to the panoramic aspect ratio you see above. …

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Gmail adds voice and video chat

If you a Gmail user, you can now download a small browser plugin that will allow you to do voice and video chats from your browser directly inside of Gmail.  Of course, you’ll need a webcam to use the video feature or a microphone to use the voice.  I already have it installed, of course,…

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Reynolds Creek in Glacier National Park
Reynolds Creek

The first picture is Reynolds Creek as it runs down from Logan Pass. The second image is the waterfall that occurs just below the first picture as the creek runs down the mountain.  I shot these just before sunset, so this particular valley was completely in shadow.  This allowed me to do some long exposures…

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A Sense of Scale
A Sense of Scale

I took these on the hike back to Logan Pass from Hidden Lake in the early evening.  Both pictures have hikers in the frame.  You’ll have to look a little harder in the second one.  Like I said in a previous post, it was pretty weird walking across deep snow in the middle of July. …

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