Life...through my eyes.

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I am an amateur photographer living in Idaho. I enjoy taking photos of the simple things in life that catch my eye. Thank you for taking time to stop by and view my photographs. I welcome any comments or suggestions you may have for me so please take a moment to sign my guestbook.

I hope you enjoy seeing "life, through my eyes" in these photos.

Thanks, Amy

“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.” Henry David Thoreau

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What's New : My newest photos appear here first. Check back regularly as I try to add new photos weekly. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” - Eleanor Roosevelt "A good snapshot stops a moment from running away." ~Eudora Welty

What's New

My newest photos appear here first. Check back regularly as I try to a ...

Updated: Nov 22, 2009 3:51pm PST

NEW....Bayhorse, Idaho : "Bayhorse is an 1880's era Ghost Town. The Bayhorse Mines are silent now but a trip to the area will help you understand the trails and tribulations of the is historic site. Managed as a State Park as a unit of Land of the Yankee Fork State Park, Bayhorse demostrates that historic preservation and recrational use can be mutually beneficial. Come vist our unique site and see if you agree!" http://www.visitidaho.org or http://www.legendsofamerica.com/id-bayhorse.html "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Nagyrapolt

NEW....Bayhorse, Idaho

"Bayhorse is an 1880's era Ghost Town. The Bayhorse Mines are silent n ...

Updated: Sep 20, 2009 10:16pm PST

My Favorites : Best, to my eye. "There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs." ~Ansel Adams "Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop." -Ansel Adams

My Favorites

Guest Book, please sign : I'd love to know you dropped by for a visit, so please take a moment to sign my guestbook. I welcome your comments and suggestions. Thanks again, Amy "A photograph is memory in the raw." ~Carrie Latet “You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

Guest Book, please sign

Galleries

Black and White : "When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!" ~Ted Grant

Black and White

Sepia : "Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." - Charles Mingus

Sepia

My Montana : I am from Montana. There is something absolutely wonderful about Montana. It is an energy, a peaceful tone or spirit, you feel the moment you arrive and that you sense is missing the moment you leave. Montana is a place of beautiful, vast extremes, each deserving of admiration: mountains to prairies, summer heat to bitter winter cold, pines to sagebrush, miles of peaceful solitude to the wave of a fellow Montanan passing by. And of course there is, above it all, the beautiful Big Sky. I am proud to be a Montanan. There really is "no place like home." Montana is truely the "Last Best Place" as it can't get any better than this. -Amy

My Montana

Medicine Rocks, State Park, Montana : "Over an irregular tract of gently rolling sandy hills, perhaps about three quarters of a mile square, were scattered several hundred detached and isolated buttes or cliffs of sandstone, each butte from fifteen to fifty feet high, and from thirty to a couple of hundred feet across. Some of them rose as sharp peaks or ridges, or as connected chains, but much the greater number had flat tops like little table-lands. The sides were perfectly perpendicular, and were cut and channelled by the weather into the most extraordinary forms; caves, columns, battlements, spires, and flying buttresses were mingled in the strangest confusion. Many of the caves were worn clear through the buttes, and they were at every height in the sides, while ledges ran across the faces, and shoulders and columns jutted out from the corners. On the tops and at the bases of most of the cliffs grew pine trees, some of considerable height, and the sand gave every thing a clean, white look. Altogether it was as fantastically beautiful a place as I have ever seen: it seemed impossible that the hand of man should not have had something to do with its formation. " -Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman. http://fwp.mt.gov/mtoutdoors/HTML/articles/2005/medicinerocks.htm

Medicine Rocks, State Park, Montana

Spirituality : "Two paths converged in a wood and I, I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference." -Robert Frost "Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires? Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent." John 6:28 & 29

Spirituality

Patriotism : "The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." -Benjamin Franklin "Where liberty is, there is my country." -Benjamin Franklin

Patriotism

"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You ...

Updated: Nov 22, 2009 4:45pm PST

Idaho : Views throughout Idaho

Idaho

American Dog Derby 2009, Ashton, Idaho :

American Dog Derby 2009, Ashton, Idaho

North Dakota Heritage : Scenic views of rural North Dakota. "We loved a great many things- birds and trees and books and all things beautiful; and horses and rifles and children, and hard work, and the joy of life." - Theodore Roosevelt

North Dakota Heritage

Barns : "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

Barns

Signs : Sometimes we miss the things in plain sight.

Signs

Letters : Searching for letters began as a project my friend, K., introduced me to. I found that it offers me the opportunity to practice my photography skills and encourages me to "see" things from a different perspective. Once you start looking for letters, you can't help but to continue to see them, even in the most ordinary places.

Letters

Tetons : Magestic mountain views "There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons; and our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children's children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred." -Theodore Roosevelt

Tetons

Yellowstone : There's nothing else that compares to the unique beauty found in Yellowstone National Park. "There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons; and our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children's children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred." -Theodore Roosevelt

Yellowstone

Flowers : Gentle beauty.

Flowers

Nature; Trees, plants, and other vegetation :

Nature; Trees, plants, and other vegetation

Western Heritage : "But if they ever saw a sunrise on a mountain mornin’, Watched those cotton candy clouds roll by, they'd know why I live beneath these Western Skies." - Chris Ledoux

Western Heritage

Western Wildlife : All creatures, great and small.

Western Wildlife

Long Term Parking : "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

Long Term Parking

Shane's gallery : The photos in this gallery were taken by Shane whom has quite the eye for a good photo opportunity. "We loved a great many things- birds and trees and books and all things beautiful; and horses and rifles and children, and hard work, and the joy of life." - Theodore Roosevelt

Shane's gallery

Trails End Ranch 30year Reunion, Ekalaka, Montana : MISSION: "To present a year-round quality Christian camping center as an evangelistic force for Jesus Christ; developing and training well-balanced Christians as an arm of local Gospel preaching churches." Trail’s End Ranch is located on 720 acres of beautiful hill country, 5 miles S.E. of Ekalaka, in the extreme Southeastern corner of Montana. It is in the middle of the Custer National Forest and surrounded by plains. Our Goals: To bring each camper to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. To disciple each camper and help him/her grow into a mature Christian. To deal with each one as an individual and help him/her develop physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, and spiritually into a well balanced individual. To encourage each camper to return home to serve the Lord, be a witness for Him, and become active in a local gospel preaching church. This year-round Christian camping ministry is a quality ranch style Sports and Adventure camp for all ages. TER is an independent, fundamental, home missionary ministry that emphasizes evangelism, discipleship and witnessing. It is a balanced ministry to the whole person. www.ter.org

Trails End Ranch 30year Reunion, Ekalaka, Montana

Windows : "Of all the memorable views, the best have been framed by Montana windows." -- The View from My Window, William Hjortsberg

Windows

Advancement Pictures for EIPS :

Advancement Pictures for EIPS

Updated: Sep 17, 2009 9:14pm PST

EIPS Fieldtrip Favorites :

EIPS Fieldtrip Favorites

Updated: Feb 28, 2009 7:36am PST

Our Akitas : "Let me be the person my dog thinks I am." "With exception of the Akita, there is no other dog that understands the feelings of its master" --Helen Keller

Our Akitas

Watertowers : Watertowers are the lifeforce of a community but often go unnoticed. I find them beautiful.

Watertowers

Good old shots : These are scans of original 35mm photos. Oldies, but still nice to see after all these years. "A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into." ~Ansel Adams

Good old shots

Grand Canyon : "Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter." ~Ansel Adams

Grand Canyon

Utah : "You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it." ~Author Unknown

Utah

Las Vegas : "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas", except the photos which go onto smugmug.

Las Vegas

ConExpo :

ConExpo

My Favorites : Best, to my eye. "There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs." ~Ansel Adams "Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop." -Ansel Adams

My Favorites

What's New : My newest photos appear here first. Check back regularly as I try to add new photos weekly. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” - Eleanor Roosevelt "A good snapshot stops a moment from running away." ~Eudora Welty

What's New

My newest photos appear here first. Check back regularly as I try to a ...

Updated: Nov 22, 2009 3:51pm PST

My Smug Mug : "It's weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don't even amount to a couple of hours." ~James Lalropui Keivom

My Smug Mug

Guest Book, please sign : I'd love to know you dropped by for a visit, so please take a moment to sign my guestbook. I welcome your comments and suggestions. Thanks again, Amy "A photograph is memory in the raw." ~Carrie Latet “You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

Guest Book, please sign

Crows : Luke 12:24 (NIV) "Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!"

Crows

Family Reunion ND 8.09 :

Family Reunion ND 8.09

Updated: Oct 09, 2009 10:53pm PST

NEW....Bayhorse, Idaho : "Bayhorse is an 1880's era Ghost Town. The Bayhorse Mines are silent now but a trip to the area will help you understand the trails and tribulations of the is historic site. Managed as a State Park as a unit of Land of the Yankee Fork State Park, Bayhorse demostrates that historic preservation and recrational use can be mutually beneficial. Come vist our unique site and see if you agree!" http://www.visitidaho.org or http://www.legendsofamerica.com/id-bayhorse.html "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Nagyrapolt

NEW....Bayhorse, Idaho

"Bayhorse is an 1880's era Ghost Town. The Bayhorse Mines are silent n ...

Updated: Sep 20, 2009 10:16pm PST

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"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place...I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them." Elliot Erwitt