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Revision History 2023
This is the 2023 revision history of the Lumen Perfectus Web site. Probably not of general interest, but it helps us keep track of the site's growth and maintenance.
We replace the "Photo of the Day" daily; we won't log those changes here.
Use the "newest photos" link in the table of contents at left to go directly to our most recent additions.
(2023)
- 02 December: From (again) a September trip to Yellowstone, this week's photo is a portrait of a bison bull in morning sun in the park's Hayden Valley. This animal was part of a large herd that stopped traffic for hours as they browsed alongside the road.
- 25 November: From a September trip to Yellowstone National Park we've added another photo of a male osprey delivering a fish to his mate in a nest high above the Firehole river.
- 18 November: This week we've added a photo made in May of a female mountain bluebird in the branches of a small maple tree.
- 11 November: Our new picture this week is another in a series of images of beautiful after-sunset skies made from our home west of Montana's Flathead Lake. We've been thinking of breaking out the dozen or so similar photos into their own gallery. Maybe when there's more indoor time this winter.
- 04 November: We've added another photo of larch trees in fall color in the Jim Girard Memorial Grove in western Montana's Swan Valley.
- 28 October: From western Montana's Swan Valley, today's photo shows larch trees in spectacular fall color near the site of the largest larch in the U.S. Adding this picture required adding an 11th (!) page to the 'Other Scenics' gallery.
- 21 October: This week's new picture captures a small flock of Canada geese flying over a pair of small trees on a hilltop that have been the subject of a number of our photos. The image was made on a cool October morning as the geese were feeding in local fields.
- 14 October: From our September trip to Yellowstone National Park comes today's photo of a small flock of geese flying through mist over the Madison River just before sunrise. This required adding a seventh page to the Yellowstone scenics gallery.
- 07 October: From Yellowstone National Park's Hayden Valley, this week's addition shows a young bison (buffalo) pressed against its mother. The photo was made in bright, late morning sunshine.
- 30 September: Continuing from last week, we've posted another photo of the Yellowstone osprey nest, this picture showing the male delivering a fish to his mate in the nest.
- 23 September: We are just back from a trip to Yellowstone National Park. Today we posted the first of several pictures from that visit, this one of a female osprey in her nest screaming for her mate.
- 16 September: Last week we posted an evening photo from Glacier National Park's Lake McDonald. Today's new picture is from the next morning as clouds quickly obscured the scene, giving us just minutes to make a single 'keeper' image.
- 09 September: Earlier this week we made what's become a rare summer visit to Glacier National Park. Our new photo is an addition to our 'Lake McDonald' gallery, in which we've posted a multi-year collection of pictures made from nearly the same spot on the southern shore of the park's largest lake. This is our first addition to this gallery since 2019.
- 02 September: Another photo from our July hike into Piper Lake in the Flathead National Forest, this of fireweed among a jumble of boulders a hundred feet or so above the lake.
- 26 August: Our addition this week is another picture from Piper Lake in Montana's Flathead National Forest. This is a colorful abstract of stones in shallow water at the lake shore, lit by low-angle morning sun. This required adding a sixth page to our 'Abstract' images gallery, and moving some pictures around among that gallery's pages.
- 19 August: We've posted another photo from the Piper Lake hike (see the 12 August note below), of a large rock-fall jumble below cliffs on the east side of the Mission Range.
- 12 August: A late July backpacking trip into the Mission Mountains Wilderness (Flathead National Forest), hiking in from the Swan Valley, offered some picture taking opportunities, via smartphone camera, in the east side of the Mission Range. Today we posted the first of a small number of keeper photos from that hike. This required adding a fifth page to our 'Mission Mountains' gallery.
- 06 August: To our 'Abstracts' Gallery we've added a picture of trees reflected in the rippled water of Birch Lake in Montana's Jewel Basin. Likely the last of the Jewel hike photos.
- 30 July: Yet another photo from the Jewel Basin hike, this one made from the south end of Birch Lake looking across the Hungry Horse reservoir into the Bob Marshall Wilderness.
- 22 July: This week's new picture is a view across the Jewel Basin's Birch Lake looking through trees toward the Swan Range to the south. We'd pitched our tents just a few feet behind the photographer's position.
- 15 July: We've found more 'keeper' photos than expected from our recent backpacking trip into the Flathead National Forest's Jewel Basin. Surprising because all were made with a cell phone. We've created a new gallery to accommodate the pictures and added another. We will be adding a couple more soon.
- 08 July: We've posted another photo from our Jewel Basin hike (see last week's posting below), this of sunrise light on Birch Lake under a crystal-clear blue sky. The two recent pictures are in our 'Other Montana' scenics gallery. When time permits we'll create a new gallery for these Jewel Basin images.
- 02 July: A hike and a couple of nights camping in Montana's Jewel Basin (Flatheat National Forest) resulted in a number of photos made with a cell phone, as the 'real' camera gear is too heavy for the combination of me and the hike. The captures are not print quality, but it's a beautiful area, making the temptation to create images impossible to deny.
- 24 June: We've added a panoramic photo of Legion Lake in South Dakota's Custer State Park. This required creating a new gallery page for the park, even though this is the only 'keeper' photo we have for the new gallery. We do have pictures from South Dakota's Badlands and Wind Cave National Parks.
- 17 June: Again from 2013, and another photo from Yellowstone National Park, this of colorful clouds over the Lamar River on a September morning.
- 10 June: From 2013, we've added a picture of golden, sunrise-lit steam rising from Yellowstone's Mammoth Hot Springs.
- 03 June: Another photo of Undine Falls (see last week's entry), this a slightly wider view that includes some of Lava Creek running out at the bottom of the falls.
- 27 May: A trip this week to Yellowstone National Park resulted in several photos of Undine Falls. Today we've posted the first, a black & white photo of the three tiers of the falls.
- 21 May: This week's posting is a picture of what's probably an Aphrodite Fritillary butterfly, photographed on a warm July morning several years ago.
- 13 May: From the archives, a 2007 photo of mouse ear chickweed under a dark outcropping of rock, the picture made on a wet summer morning.
- 06 May: One more of the bluebirds, this time a female in sun on the tip of a small pine tree.
- 28 April: The mountain bluebirds come in pairs. Today we've posted a picture of a female, perhaps the mate to the male in last week's picture.
- 22 April: Added a photo made a couple of days ago to our 'Backyard Birds' gallery. It's a picture of a male mountain bluebird in a small maple tree on a corner of our property. This required adding a fifth page to the gallery.
- 15 April: We've added another photo from a 2019 trip to the Oregon coast, this from Castle Rock, made as the sun rose over the cliffs behind us.
- 08 April: We've added a picture of a pair of tiny trees on a distant ridge, against an 'interesting' after-sunset sky. This is a favorite subject resulting in minimalist photos.
- 01 April: Added a photo from 2013 to our Mission Range gallery. Copied several pictures from our Ninepipe NWR gallery to the Mission Range gallery (while keeping them also in the original Ninepipe gallery). Inserting these chronologically required rebuilding the entire Mission Range gallery. No foolin'.
- 25 March: From 2013, a panorama of sunrise light on the mountains across St. Mary Lake in Glacier National Park is this week's 'new' photo.
- 18 March: Another 2019 photo from Oregon's Bandon Beach, this of a massive stump washed up against a wall of rock, all in warm morning light.
- 11 March: We've posted a photo of after-sunset light in the sky and reflected in the incoming tide at Bandon Beach, Oregon, U.S. The photo was made during our 2019 visit.
- 04 March: This week we've posted, again from our archives, another 2013 photo of Silver Staircase Falls, just outside the southern boundary of Glacier National Park.
- 25 February: From the archives we've added a photo made in Glacier National Park in 2013, of ice, open water, and colorful argylite stones in Sprague Creek. This required moving images from page 7 to 8 and from page 8 to 9 of the Ice and Snow gallery.
- 18 February: This week we've posted, from our archives, a 2013 photo of Silver Staircase Falls, just outside the southern boundary of Glacier National Park.
- 11 February: A cloudy sky seemed to kill any chance of photographing the full snow moon (5 February), but the moon rose through a small gap in the clouds, resulting in a dramatic picture of this year's smallest-appearing full moon.
- 04 February: This week we've added another pre-sunrise photo of the Mission Range, taken a few minutes before the previous entry (below). It's a single-frame (non-pano) picture, and the few minutes made a difference in the lighting and color.
- 28 January: We've added a pre-sunrise panorama of the Mission Mountains, the photo made on a freezing January morning from our home in western Montana.
- 21 January: To our Abstracts gallery we've added a photo made in October, 2020, of soft sunlight on moss and fungus on a cedar tree root in Montana's Glacier National Park.
- 14 January: This week's addition is a photo from last September of yet another amazing sunset sky, made near our home in western Montana.
- 07 January: We start off the new year with a photo made minutes ago, of a whitetail deer browsing in dense fog on this chilly morning.
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01 January 2023: Updated the Revision History pages for the new year.