Montana Landscape, Hatfield and Grouse Mountains - Hwy 89, Ringling, MT
Montana Landscape, Hatfield and Grouse Mountains - Hwy 89, Ringling, MT
Montana Landscape with Hatfield and Grouse Mountains
Driving along on the way to Yellowstone after having left Glacier National Park, I stopped and took this vista in the sunset glow. Not a normal scene I would want to capture, there was something so vast and impressive about big sky country as it is aptly named. This photo was taken 5/11/21 at 6:37 pm.
WeForest Donation: $380 (What is this?)
Print Number: 1/3
Print Size: 21 × 27.5 in.
Total Dimensions: 33 x 39 in.
Weight: 20 lbs
Hanging equipment and certificate of authenticity included.
PHOTOGRAPH
Hatfield and Grouse Mountains
These mountains are located in Gallatin County, Montana. Each are around 7500 ft tall and home to many different hiking and biking trails. Grouse Mountain however, nearer Whitefish Montana, is the more inhabited from what I can tell. Whereas Hatfield Mountain, nearer Bozeman, seems to be very wild.
LOCATION
Highway 89, Ringling, MT
This location will surely be a one of a kind as we very randomly pulled over for this beautiful landscape as we were enamored as just how big everything seemed to us. Big Sky country was living up to its name and we had to enjoy some fresh air and the wonderfully large clouds that were rolling overhead.
FRAME
Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum)
Bald Cypress, the giant of the swamp, is a stately, slow growing native of the southeastern United States. Very tough, it can adapt to thrive in a wide range of soils, including very briny, salty, and water soaked areas. Able to grow very tall, it has great stability at its base thanks to its “knees.” The tallest known Cypress was about 145 feet tall. All of the Bald Cypress I have used in my frames has come from different parts of Louisiana.
THE ELEMENTS
Fire, Water, Earth, and Air
In the display case in the bottom of the frame, four items are in preserved glass vials. The items represent the elements: fire (wood charcoal), water (mineral oil), earth (soil), and air (a milkweed seed). I include these items in my work as a symbol of the interconnectedness of all life on Earth, and as a reminder that humans must do better.
THE PLAQUE
Magnetic Information Plaque
I engrave a wooden information plaque for each work. The plaque includes what the photograph is of, the location of the photograph, what type of wood the frame is made of, and where I sourced the wood. The plaques also explain why the vials are included in each work. The back of each plaque states the meaning of my logo: “The circle represents our home, Planet Earth. The hourglass represents time. The five horizontal lines in the bottom of the hourglass represent the five mass extinction periods that have occurred in the past. The single line falling through the hourglass represents our current mass extinction period, caused by us.” The plaques are attached magnetically and can be removed to read or to store on the back of each frame if you prefer not to have it displayed on the front.
