Worship The Night jake mosher

Worship The Night jake mosherThe Cottonwood Lutheran church, between Havre, MT and the Canadian Line, is one of the more striking abandoned buildings in Montana. I photographed it under the Milky Way during the spring of 2020, and while I was happy with the results, I wanted to give it another shot with a new lens two years later. The 700 mile round trip from my home in Bozeman was worth it, as I was rewarded with an absolutely gorgeous June night, including an appearance by the

During late summer

A year later

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though the alpenglow was unread this evening

I took this series of photos at minutely-different distances from this leaf then stacked all pictures into a single image that provides depth of field and focus across the entire scene

and the cottonwood trees lining the road

The brush-stroke-like clouds are an effect of stacking multiple photos on top of each other

A buffalo jump

mountains goats

and after he'd emptied the bag he hopped out onto a snow drift where he posed for this sunlit photo

Source insect: Atlas Moth

full of color and detail