The Dead of Winter hyalite lake

The Dead of Winter hyalite lakeDuring the harshest season in the Rockies, survival often comes down to luck. One animal sees spring while another doesn't. Here, a bull elk feeds slowly up a line of willows in Yellowstone National Park, passing close to the remains of a cow bison. This elk looks healthy at the end of December, but he's got a long road ahead before he will see any green grass. This is a signed and numbered limited edition fine art print shot intentionally in black in

WY was built in 1914 and saw its last students in 1967

It's a limited run of 20 images at 30x50" and offered as a fine

This print is offered as a 12x18 photograph

This is offered as a large print on archival-quality photo paper as well as on ready-to-hang aluminum

The northern lights made an appearance during this star trails shoot near an old

weighing up to a solid ton

partial sunlight bathed Mount Pisgah and Hoar

I used a motorized equatorial mount to take a pair of 4-minute exposures of the scene as soon as it was dark enough

archival photo paper as well as ready-to-hang aluminum

This scene

resting each morning while they wait for the sun to rise higher and warm them

home to grizzly bears