Photographing Montana

by Gordon Sullivan

Overview

Gordon Sullivan, a Montana native and professional photographer, will guide you to the highlights of the state and shows you how to shoot those places most effectively and when to do so in terms of weather, light conditions etc. Further, Gordon’s lifetime in the state will lead you to many backroad opportunities and access points not known to the occasional visitor.

Montana is a virtual treasure trove of photographic opportunities—from the high peaks of Glacier National Park, to the seemingly endless vistas of the high plateaus, to the sparse and forbidding badlands of far Eastern Montana. Gordon Sullivan, a Montana native and professional photographer, will guide you to the highlights of the state and shows you how to shoot those places most effectively and when to do so in terms of weather, light conditions etc. Further, Gordon’s lifetime in the state will lead you to many backroad opportunities and access points not known to the occasional visitor. With every tourist now having a reasonably good camera at their disposal—even in their cellphone, no one should be without this guide to capturing one of the most beautiful places in the country.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781581571585
Publisher:	Countryman Press, The
Publication date:	03/04/2013
Series:	The Photographer's Guide
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	619,941
Product dimensions:	8.90(w) x 7.20(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Gordon Sullivan is the author and photographer of many books and calendars, including Saving Homewaters and The Photographer's Guide to Glacier National Park, both from Countryman Press. He lives in Libby, Montana.

Table of Contents

Introduction 11

How to Use This Book 17

How We Photograph Montana 18

1 The Eastern Badlands

1 St. Peter's Catholic Church 29

2 Makoshika State Park 29

3 Badlands along Highway 200S 29

4 Yellowstone River 29

5 Terry Badlands/Big Sky Scenic Byway 30

6 Prairie County Museum and Evelyn Cameron Photographic Gallery 30

7 Medicine Rocks State Park 31

8 Miles City 31

9 Pompey's Pillar 32

10 Pictograph Cave State Park 34

11 Moss Mansion 34

12 Warrior Trail 34

13 Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument 35

14 Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area 36

15 Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range 37

16 Beartooth Highway 37

17 Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Area 39

18 Rock Creek 39

19 Big Snowy Mountains 40

20 Lewistown 41

21 National Wildlife Refuges 41

II Northeast Prairie Country

22 Fort Union Trading Post 43

23 Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge 43

24 Scobey 44

25 San Arroyo Badlands 44

26 Fort Peck Dam and Reservoir 45

27 Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge 46

28 Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge and Satellites 47

29 American Prairie Reserve 47

30 Fort Assinniboine 49

31 Missouri River: Coal Banks Landing and Virgille Ferry 49

32 Missouri River: National Wild and Scenic River 50

33 Missouri Breaks Back Country Byway 51

34 Fort Benton 52

35 Bear Paw Battlefield 52

36 Bear Paw Mountains 53

37 Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument 53

38 Giant Springs State Park and Great Falls Portage 54

39 Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge 55

III Southwest Gold and River Country

40 Sluice Boxes State Park 57

41 Smith River State Park 57

42 Missouri River between Cascade and Gates of the Mountains 58

43 Gates of the Mountains 59

44 Helena: State Capitol Building 61

45 Montana Historical Society/Montana's Museum, Charles M. Russell Gallery 61

46 Cathedral of St. Helena 61

47 Elkhorn Ghost Town 62

48 Canyon Ferry Lake 63

49 Diamond City/Confederate Gulch Ghost Town 63

50 Missouri Headwaters State Park 64

51 Bridger Range 64

52 Hyalite Canyon 65

53 Palisade Falls 67

54 Paradise Valley 67

55 Armstrong Spring Creek 67

56 Mammoth Hot Springs 67

Mountain ranges and valleys east of Paradise Valley

57 Crazy Mountains 68

58 Castle Mountains 68

59 Boulder River Valley 69

60 West Boulder Road 70

61 Boulder Falls 70

62 Stillwater Valley 72

Mountain ranges and valleys west of Paradise Valley

63 Gallatin River Canyon 72

64 Grizzly and Wolf Recovery Center, West Yellowstone 73

65 Madison Range 74

66 Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge/Centennial Mountains 74

67 Bannack State Park 75

68 Alder Gulch, Virginia City, Nevada City 76

69 Robbers Roost 76

70 Lewis and Clark Caverns State Park 77

IV Northwest Mountain Country

71 Big Hole Valley 79

72 Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness Area 80

73 Pioneer Mountains Scenic Byway/Coolidge Ghost Town 80

74 Nez Perce National Historical Park and Big Hole Battlefield 81

75 Historic Butte 82

76 Mineral Museum and World Museum of Mining 82

77 Lost Creek State Park 83

78 Deer Lodge: Grant-Kohrs Ranch, Old Prison Museum, Montana Automobile Museum 83

79 Flint Creek Mountain Range 84

80 Gold Creek/Clark Fork River 84

81 Pintler Scenic Highway 85

82 Skalkaho Road and Pass 86

Sites south of the Skalkaho Road

83 Bitterroot Range/Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area 86

84 Painted Rocks State Park 88

Sites north of the Skalkaho Road

85 Fort Owen/St. Mary's Mission 89

86 Daly Mansion (Riverside) 89

87 Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge/Watchable Wildlife Triangle 90

88 Rattlesnake National Recreation Area and Wilderness 91

89 Garnet Ghost Town/Garnet Back Country Byway 91

90 Rock Creek/Welcome Creek Wilderness Area 93

Sites north of Missoula

91 St. Ignatius Mission 94

92 National Bison Range Wildlife Refuge 94

93 Ninepipe National Wildlife Refuge 95

94 Mission Mountains Wilderness Area 96

95 Flathead Lake 97

96 Jewel Basin Hiking Area 98

97 Swan Lake 98

98 Swan River National Wildlife Refuge 99

99 Bob Marshall Wilderness Area 99

100 Great Bear Wilderness Area 100

101 Scapegoat Wilderness Area 101

102 Flathead River 101

103 Glacier National Park 102

104 Freezeout Lake Wildlife Management Area 103

Traveling west from Great Falls

105 Rocky Mountain Front 104

Traveling Highway 200 from St. Ignatius to Highway 56 and the Bull Lake Valley

106 Clark Fork River 104

107 Camas Prairie/Glacial Lake Missoula 105

Traveling Highway 56 from Junction to Troy

108 Cabinet Mountain Wilderness Area 106

109 Bull River Valley 106

110 Ross Creek Giant Cedars Natural Area 108

Traveling Highway 2 from Troy to Highway 508

111 The Yaak River Valley 109

112 Northwest Peaks Scenic Area 109

113 West Fork Falls 109

Traveling Highway 2 from Troy to Kalispell

114 Kootenai Falls 110

115 Chain of Lakes 110

116 Thompson River 111

Conclusion 112