Sage Mountain Photography

06/12/2026

OMG! These look exactly like the natural rock formations in the Boulder Batholith in sw Montana! ( except for the ocean!😉)

More dramatic rock formations on the South West coastal path at Lands End, Cornwall.

06/11/2026

We had a stunning sunset over the Highland Mountains of southwest Montana last night. Here are three of the photos that I captured. Please help me, I can't decide which one I like best!

06/11/2026

A must read!

Every vista in Montana tells a geologic story. Rob Thomas selects 60 of the best sites to reveal how the state’s landscapes were built, reshaped, and transformed.

06/09/2026

These beautiful, petite flowers always bring joy and a smile to my face when I see them. They are called Lanceleaf springbeauty and are found in all of the western US states. The corms are dug up by grizzly bears because of their nutritional value, and they are also a nutritional treat for humans raw or cooked. Meriwether Lewis collected the first documented species in 1806 while on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, aka Corp of Discovery. Aren't they sweet?

Title: Lanceleaf Springbeauty
Location: western Montana
Date: 5/28/2026

06/01/2026

The sound of the recent rains on the roof, the smell of the wet pines, and the dramatic gray clouds were a delightful blessing to a drought stricken Montana. Walking through the wet meadow, I was delighted to see a Silver Lupine collecting raindrops on its leaves. A lupine star!

Title: After the Rain
Location: Whitehall, MT
Date: 5/31/26
Sage Mountain Photography

05/31/2026

I love springtime in Montana. The grass is green and sprinkled with dandelions, the mountains are covered in snow. The snowpack means tributaries will fill our rivers as long as our temperatures stay cool. Warren Peak aka Mount Warren stands tall in the Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness. It stands 10,463 feet tall and straddles the Continental Divide. It is a stunning peak.

05/28/2026

Recently, I posted a series of photos from the Boulder Batholith looking at different natural rock formations and mentioning pareidolia. Now I bring to you two photos of pareidolia in clouds and wood. Do you see what I see? Do you see something else? Have fun and please share your pareidolia!

05/25/2026

In January, two of my prints were sold to a couple in Westport, Connecticut. They received the prints from the framers and sent these pictures to me. I am so grateful, honored, and inspired to have my photos displayed in someone's home. It is so apropos to put photos of an aspen leaf and the To***co Root Mountains of Montana next to a Buffalo Bill poster that was gifted to the wife while she was working in an art gallery. They now have a wall of the west!

05/24/2026

Mammatus Clouds hang over an area of sw Montana. Looking west, they loomed over the Highland Mountains and moved overhead. Here is what the UCAR Center for Science Education had to say about them.

"Mammatus clouds are pouches of clouds that hang underneath the base of a cloud. They are most often associated with cumulonimbus clouds that produce very strong storms. These clouds usually form during warm months, and are formed by descending air in the cloud. Mammatus clouds are sometimes described a looking like a field of tennis balls or melons, or like female human breasts. In fact, the name "mammatus" comes from the latin word mamma, or breast."

They seem so ominous, but beautiful. Clouds truly are amazing as all of nature is!

05/21/2026

An American Bison (Not a water buffalo~different continent, different species😉) on her migration through Yellowstone National Park. Her herd is fording across the Madison River near the West Yellowstone, MT entrance. She wears an expression on her face as if to say...

Title: Are We There Yet?
Date: 4/18/26