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BOOF Pictures
Garryowen, MT, July 2025 If you read about wildlife photography, you might run into the acronym BIF, and you might see that it is the “Holy Grail” of wildlife photography. BIF stands for “Birds in Flight”. It is a difficult, aggravating, and time consuming form of wildlife photography. If often requires a great deal of…
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More Canon R7 Testing
Garryowen, MT, July 2025 Yes, more camera testing. Just a warning. This post has some technical concepts for photography that may or may not make sense. Before that, more Western Kingbirds! We think there is a Western Kingbird nest in the tree beside our RV. The two birds in the tree are very loud and…
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Protection from the Storm?
Garryowen, MT, July 2025 An afternoon storm with chance of high winds and 1/2 inch hail popped up. The skies all of a sudden turned dark with major wind gust rocked the trailer. Not knowing if Montana is at higher risk for Tornados, we pulled out the cat carriers just in case we needed to…
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Angry Birds at 7th Ranch
Garryowen, MT, July 2025 John has been trying to test the Canon R7 against the Canon T7i, so he went back out after the storm to take more pictures of the angry baby bird. He got further proof of this birds utter lack of survival instinct because it was now being angry in the middle…
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Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
Garryowen, MT, July 2025 So we are staying in the middle of nowhere, Montana near a (small? tiny? puny?) private town name Garryowen. Wikipedia and the 2010 Census claim that the population is 2. The building in town is a combination of the city hall, museum, and convenience store. We have not been there, so…
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Relaxing during the Heat Wave
7th Ranch RV Camp, Garryowen, MT When we were Yellowstone, the hottest day was maybe 80 F and that was probably only 1 day. Most nights were in the 30s or less. We did have a few in the 40s. Ever since then, the temperature has been a minimum of 80s during the day and…
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7th Ranch RV Camp Day 1 Sunset
7th Ranch RV Camp, Gerryowen, MT, July 2025 We left Yellowstone National Park a couple days ago. The exit route we took went through the North Entrance to Gardner, MT. This route has a lot of switchbacks, turns and goes down around 2,000 feet in elevation. Needless to say, both cats got sick in the…
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Deer Park Campground Buffalo, WY to Yellowstone River Campground Billings, MT
Billings, Montana, May 2025 Park Information: Phone / Internet service Driving Directions (166 miles) Note: if you drive too far you will end up at the KOA campground. Rest Areas Site Information Site Pictures