The End

I camped for four-nights out here, to be fully immersed in order to find great location to photograph the golden Larch Trees in mid-October. Those four days showed mostly torrential downpours all nights and hours throughout each day. The night before this was no exception. It was pounding the shell of my truck bed, creating a certain kind of white noise. The morning, the same. Though the weather lifted as I drove high on random old logging roads, then hiked higher above just enough to let light in. I pushed my way through the Larch Trees and positioned myself in time to photograph what little light I saw this day. Hill-sides and ridge-lines move out and drop into Hungry Horse Reservoir in Northern Montana. Distant mountain tops socked in the heavy clouds, rain and snow, high above. I went with a heavy and dark feeling for this image and I did so based off of my experiences and emotions over the past month and few-days of battling weather and wind. This is the beauty of art. You make it the way you want it, felt it and or experienced it. In that, I was also getting over a death of one of my absolute best friends. So, I needed plentiful time along to process these emotions and to put those emotions into my art. This was a very therapeutic process for me. One that I knew I needed and one that I prioritized and received. The Hungry Horse, and Spotted Bear Wilderness area is filled with high mountains, low valleys filled with hundreds of springs, streams, rivers, trees and the abundance of wildlife; bears, wolfs, elk and everything in between.