Spring is on its way in eastern Idaho. Winter color seems more intense as it awaits the green hues of springtime along the edges of Rainey Creek in Swan Valley. It won’t be long now with these warm days. #swanvalleyidaho #raineycreek #bestofthegemstate #easternidaho #orcuttphotography John Orcutt April 3, 2022 Instagram Continue Reading
Early this morning this vertical rainbow appeared in our backyard in Driggs, Idaho. Our guess was that there must have been a snow layer close to the mountains, though there was no evidence of snow falling near us. #rainbowatdriggsidaho #bestofthegemstate #tetoncanyonidaho #orcuttphotography #tetonmountains John Orcutt February 25, 2022 Instagram Continue Reading
Cottonwoods, defined by heavy frost, line the channel of the Grand Teton Canal in Driggs, Idaho. #Tetonvalleyidaho #grandtetoncanal #driggsidaho #bestofthegemstate #orcutt photography.com #cottonwoodway John Orcutt February 23, 2022 Instagram Continue Reading
Historic Pillsbury Grain Elevator, between Felt and Ashton, Idaho. Like distant ships on the horizon, grain elevators in the American West appear in the wide-open landscape long before reaching them. Happening upon these magnificent structures, one thinks about the engineering, the transport of materials, the labor and perseverance that it must have taken to construct them.Frank Gohlke, master of the Texas landscape, expressed his feelings about these extraordinary buildings with these few sentences: “I was frustrated by the discrepancy between the ordinariness of the facts surrounding the grain elevators and the intensity of my emotional responses to the objects themselves. …. The dignity of grain elevators, the precision, intelligence and grace of their formal language, their majestic presence within the landscape all seem to confirm the faith that, given the right circumstances, we will make visible the best that is within us”. #orcuttphotography #bestofthegemstate #historicidahograinelevators John Orcutt February 16, 2022 Instagram Continue Reading
