“It is interesting being a shooter. The pictures you make are like a connect-the-dots game that becomes the line of your life, as real and vibrant as the lines on your face and hands. We tell stories with our pictures. In turn, our pictures tell our story—what we did, and how well or poorly we did it, and, very significantly, if we stuck with it.” Joe McNally in “Sketching Light: An Illustrated Tour of the Possibilities of Flash”  

Most people who know Digitalmontana Photography are on my email list.  At the bottom of every list image is a quote by a famous photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson, considered the father of photo-journalistic photography.  The quote says, “Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.”.  In essence when we shoot we are capture a slice of an unfolding story.

When I take the time to go through my library of images I see more than the images in front of me.  I remember and re-live the stories behind them and  I am certain that I am not alone in that respect.  Each image triggers a flood of memories and emotions associated with that tiny slice of time.  Call me biased if you will, but that’s why it is so important to record these events, to capture our stories to be passed on to others, whether it be family or friends.  It is so important to record those moments and places which are special to us, to be able to look back, see where we’ve been, how far we’ve come, how much we’ve changed; how much life has happened to us! When we’re gone, the pictures will remain. They will tell the future our story…who we were and about our lives. Your heirs will thank you.

Several days ago I posted about the search for Snowy Owls and how we did not find them.  Recently I returned to that area with new information about their location and did find them.  Not the typical bird found in our area, some experts think the Snowy Owl has been pushed further south due to lack of food or the severe weather conditions in the Arctic.

 For the Oglala Lakota Indians, the Snowy Owl represents the North and the north wind and were admired and respected by the tribe; in fact, warriors that excelled in combat wore a cap of owl feathers to symbolize their bravery.

It was a privilege to find and photograph these beautiful birds which are the color of winter.

Snowy Owl peeks over a drift of snow

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A lone Snowy Owl in front of a beautiful mountain backdrop in Northwest Montana