In The Final Light Of Fall star trails cupola vermont night skies color astrophotography

In The Final Light Of Fall star trails cupola vermont night skies color astrophotographyWinter is already making inroads all across the landscape of SW Montana during the middle of October. On a day that feels undeniably no longer like fall, cottonwoods reach for sunlight along the Yellowstone River where it flows at the foot of the Absaroka Beartooth Mountains, rising in the background. Soon, the irrigation ditch seen in the foreground, will ice over as this entire scene turns white and the land settles into a long slumber. This is a

I heard wolves

both during the day and also at night

During the harshest season in the Rockies

shining in the center of this scene of dramatic light and shadows

From hundreds of 4:1 macro photos of a male jezebel butterfly's wing

In this star trails shot

a stunning 40x60 inches

these willows provide a much-needed touch of color in mid-March when most of the landscape sits in hues of gray and brown

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begins to give up the ice that has covered it for more than 8 months on a day of scattered mountain thunderstorms

it's above the horizon as soon as it gets dark

and less than a month after I took this photo deep snows blanketed this alpine scene