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Photographer

Mark bought his first 35mm camera over 25 years ago and has been taking photographs of the natural world ever since. He works for the Forest Service as a Wilderness Trail Crew Forman in the Bitterroot National Forest. On his off days off he often backpacks to remote places around Western Montana with his camera and dogs in order to capture the beauty of these wild places on film.

Mark comments on photographing the different seasons in Montana : "Spring brings wildflowers, cascading waterfalls and baby animals. As spring turns to summer the wildflowers progress to higher elevations and make the alpine scenery astounding! The fall is extra special and is my favorite time to be in the wilderness, the river bottoms glow with golden cottonwoods and the high country offers sub alpine larch in bright golds and huckleberry bushes in radiant reds. In addition, fall trips to Yellowstone to photograph bugling elk are always incredible. Falls quickly turns to winter and brings the magic of freshly fallen snow and ice crystals..."

Mark has been published in several publications: Montana Magazine, Montana Outdoors, Ranger Rick, Birder's World, Bugle, Boca Raton, Montana travel brochures, Montana Geographic Series books, phonebook covers and calendars. You may contact him at msl@netzero.com

Photographing Montana for over 20 years