Top 10 Photographs of 2015

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It was a big year for me, as I started 2015 by quitting by day job to finally pursue photography full time after 7 years of trying to balance my geology career with my photography business… and I have to say, it was the best decision I’ve made!  Thanks to each one of you who supported me along the way or spread the love with kind words.  I am excited for the journey to continue, and I hope from the bottom of my heart that you will, as Thoreau says best,”go confidently in the direction of your dreams” and “live the life you have imagined” into 2016.  I wish you a happy and healthy new year and invite you to see my top 10 favorite photographs I took in 2015 below.  Cheers to another lucky year spent on this beautiful planet we all call home.

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2015 Eclectic Exhibition at the Huffer Hideout in Centennial, Wyoming 09-05-2015

2.
The Wyoming Galaxy Gang

3.
The Moment of Dawn Light on the Mountains, Wyoming

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The Milky Way From the Mountains and the Glow of the City, Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming

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"Once you realize that the road is the goal, and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple. In itself an ecstasy." - Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Tent Under the Stars for the Perseid Meteor Shower in the Mountains of Wyoming

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The pronghorn antelope migration is one of the longest overland mammal migrations in North America.

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Back in the Pleistocene thousands of years ago, the pronghorn antelope were prey for the legendary fast cheetahs and hyenas, so they evolved to run fast, really fast. Now that there are no longer cheetahs here in Wyoming, the pronghorn now has the title for fastest land animal in North America running up to 60 mph. Not only do they need space to run, but also since they migrate as well, fences and fragmented developed land are their modern threat. Wyoming has no shortage of space, but they do still have to jump over some fences (literally) to get to greener pastures!

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"Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet." - Stephen Hawking Small rural communities out on the plains between mountain ranges in Wyoming have a front row seat for wind, but the view of the stars is left beautifully unobstructed. The soft orange glow lighting up the sky is not sunset, but instead the light pollution of the small towns of Riverside and Encampment

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"And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone." - W.B. Yeats

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