30.4.06

Jean Albus, a Montana artist who's not afraid to take risks


My Living Room, originally uploaded by Jean Albus.

This photo, by Jean Albus of Montana, is titled, "My Living Room." I was trying to think of how to get more exposure for some of Jean's awesome photos of the land she and her husband own, which they have names "Twosome." I decided to blog her photo, something I haven't done before (I mean blogging someone else's photo) ... Jean, I hope other folks can look at this image and appreciate the love you have for your home-country. And why it is we Montanans want to live here. This place. This moment you have captured. This light. This feeling.



Here's what I wrote on her flickr photo page about this one:

You are so lucky to have a place away from your "other" home to call home in the wild, Jean. No designer could invent a more perfect living room -- Towsome is a place you can truly live and what better way to describe this scene than as your living room.? What a view from your chair, too! Better than any tv or theatre screen. I love this one of all your recent Twosome shots because I can totally imagine you (or me) sitting in that chair, enjoying each changing moment of light, prairie music, skin-tingling cool and sweet breeze.

This so perfectly illustrates the unique effect of prairie light at sunrise or sunset -- the way color concentrates at the horizon and shadows seem to slip over the ground-plain and the upper sky-plain like veils. So our eyes focus as we watch the sun going down (or coming up) ...focus on the diminishing sliver of light and color near our horizon. Until it's gone and all the world around us is in shadow.

So so so evocative, emotional (for me) and exquistely beautiful. Your photos of Twosome (all of them) pull at my heart. This is why I live in Montana!

29.4.06

Sunrise Glow


Sunrise Glow, originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.

28.4.06

Photo Friday: Famous

To see this photo in an uncluttered black background, click here: 'Heroic Proportions' On Black


Heroic Proportions, originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.

27.4.06

Blue & Yellow on Crete


Blue & Yellow on Crete, originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.

26.4.06

Aspens in the glimmering dusk

25.4.06

Puddle of Sky


Puddle of Sky, originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.

24.4.06

Feminine


Pink Feminine Petal, originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.

23.4.06

Tangled in Color the Thicket Entices Me

22.4.06

Windowsill Cairn at Dawn


Windowsill Cairn at Dawn, originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.

21.4.06

Reflected Light


Reflected Light, originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.

20.4.06

Disturbance


Disturbance, originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.

Also part of this set, Love the Place You're With: www.flickr.com/photos/montanaraven/sets/72057594052003176...

19.4.06

Dancer's Poem


Dancer's Poem, originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.

18.4.06

A Meadow's Winter Coat


A Meadow's Winter Coat, originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.

17.4.06

Waiting to go to the River


Waiting to go to the River, originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.

16.4.06

Aspen Hillside


Aspen Hillside, originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.

15.4.06

Aspens in the glimmering dusk

14.4.06

Manzanita


Manzanita, originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.

13.4.06

Two


Two, originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.

12.4.06

My favorite corner


My favorite corner, originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.

My favorite corner in our little house ... where I read, write, occasionally take a nap and play in my sketchbook. This is also our guest room, Mickey's "old" bedroom and my artspace (the neat corner of the artspace. Ahem.)

11.4.06

Tea Set for Small Hands


Tea Set for Small Hands, originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.

10.4.06

Kitchen Window Orchid


My Orchid - for Celeste, originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.

7.4.06

Photo Friday: Organized ... In a Row


In a Row, originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.

6.4.06

Cup of Gold


Cup of Gold, originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.

5.4.06

Wetland Grasses Early Spring


Wetland Grasses Early Spring, originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.

4.4.06

Rural RR Siding: Grain Storage

3.4.06

Giant Blue


Giant Blue, originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.

2.4.06

Aerial Dancers


Aerial Dancers, originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.

1.4.06

Cold Conversation


Cold Conversation, originally uploaded by MontanaRaven.