I have been wanting to photograph mountain goats for several years. I was never at the right place at the right time. But this year I made it happen. Spent about an hour at 14000′ photographing them. The herd was about 10 adults and 8 kids, What fun.
OM-1, 318 lens at f8, 1/600, iso 400.
I finally got a chance to photo some bison which I’ve wanted to do for a long time. It was a cloudy, dreary day so I thought turning them into an antique type image suited it well. There were about 150 in the group so isolating just a few was the biggest challenge.
OM-1 MK2, 1/2500, 6.3 f, 34mm, ISO 3200
I had been out photo hiking in nasty weather (36°, blowing snow/rain at 8500 altitude) and hadn’t gotten anything I was excited about. About a mile from home I saw this.
OM-1, iso 400, f9, 1/200, 68mm
A collection of so-so bird pics.
I’m not a birder at all but I found out a local arboretum has a bird blind so a friend and I went to check it out. Walk a mile in a birder’s shoes I guess. An overcast day, after a rain, near sunset. Not the best conditions light-wise but I had a good time trying to capture something interesting.
Olympus OM-1 Mk2, <150-300> mm, f5ish, iso 12,800
Sometimes I get lucky. Taking a walk and a large herd of geese decided to land close to me. Lucky because all I had was my walking around lens.
OM-1, 100mm, 1/640, f8, ISO 320
This guy popped up on a frozen river while family and I were taking an after Christmas hike. My Christmas meal looked better than his.
Oly OM-1, 75mm, 1/640, f6.3, iso 200, 12/28/2024
Too late for the Milky Way, too much wind, too cold to stay long but I took a quick shot of the church and couldn’t believe the statue lit so well in the moonlight. https://campstmalo.org/
OM-1, 38mm, f4, iso 3200, 15 sec.
Night photo with medium tele with a bit of star trails. Taken during an excellent workshop with Bryan Maltais. https://www.wildernessshots.com/
OM-1, 100mm, f4, 15 sec., ISO 3200, stacked
Bear sightings are rare in Rocky Mountain National Park. I got lucky this day as I saw a bunch of cars pulled over and people looking at a small bluff about 75 yards away. At first I thought elk or maybe sheep but when we heard it was a bear I was all about it.
Olympus OM-1, 400mm, iso 2000, f8, 1/60
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The early morning of March 23 at Zion National Park started with a record snowfall. We had been lucky to get a lottery spot for Angels Landing. With the effort to get there and the money spent there was nothing to do but try to see how far we could get. Clouds and snow came and went but we made it to the top. My reward was some great pics.
Olympus Tough, different settings, mostly on automatic.