Images from the Water

Here are this week’s images from the water. While we are catching a few fish, I still find plenty of time to look around and find subjects to capture. I hope you enjoy the images below. This Rainbow was a doing its best not to be caught and wouldn’t stop bending and twisting…it popped right…

Here are this week’s images from the water. These images are from Hebgen Lake as we travelled to Yellowstone National Park to fish the Yellowstone River. We hoped to find a few Callibaetis mayflies, and found these insects along the water’s edge. These are Trico mayfly spinners. The colorful translucence from their wings are impressive….

Here are this week’s images from the water. We were in Yellowstone National Park and inspiration for this week’s portfolio. Sunrise at Lower Falls on the Yellowstone River. Measuring a Yellowstone Cutthroat on the Yellowstone River. Salmonfly on vegetation along Yellowstone River. Several hundred empty Stonefly shucks along the high water mark on the Yellowstone…

I’ve been taking a lot of pictures while on the water in the last couple of weeks. We haven’t seen many fish rising, so I watch the river to see what catches my eye. I pack a couple extra lenses with me and pull them out to capture a variety of pictures. Thanks for all…

Here are this week’s images from the water. These are all from the Metolius in the last couple of weeks. The image of these mating grasshoppers was created with a technique called “focus stacking”. I took six pictures and merged them together, taking the “in focus” portions of each to create the final image. The…