Entry 2: Phipps Park

Phipps Park has been home to me for a long time. I've spent summers bouldering there, hiking, folfing-- basically anything I can do outside, I'm at Phipps.

My sister and I came up tonight and explored a bit (she's never been there somehow... mostly due to a "Mountain Lion Phobia" that comes up occasionally), and I tried my hand as an iPhone-ographer.


While I'm not entirely thrilled with the quality of the images, a few turned out well enough to put a blog post up about.

First, I love sagebrush. We grew up Antelope hunting, and so sagebrush really just brings back early morning prairie hunting adventures with my father.

Next, I mostly just love the view this picture provides. It wasn't quite the whole way up the trail, but we stopped for a minute to look at everything, and naturally, phones were taken out to snap a few pictures.

Finally, my sister was taking a picture of a pinecone, and I thought it was a cool angle, juxtaposing nature with technology with human with nature back again in the background.

I love this place. 

Entry 1: Exposure 2016

Outside magazine is one of my favorite things to read. Growing up in Billings and more so, my childhood home of Broadview, I've been somewhat inundated since day one with Mountains, Climbing, Hunting, anything outside in general. I found this post by Outside Magazine showcasing the "best adventure photography" of 2016, and I was not disappointed.

Aside from my inherent inability to operate a camera beyond that of an iPhone, this article made me want to drop everything, head out to the middle of nowhere (which isn't difficult in this particular locale), and explore.

Montana is an incredible place to live, but this article reminded me that there is so much out there beyond the 406. Although there are some limitations to my achieving something of the caliber of photographs in this post (money, massive amounts of inexperience, lack of time, what have you), the images within this beckon me to abandon all responsibility and attack the outdoors-- one shot at a time.