September Splendor

I made a trip heading west from Helena near Avon, MT and the sun was beginning to cast very long shadows on the landscape and the foliage was glowing in the light.

My mission was to capture the late afternoon light and the dramatic long shadows. The light set all of the trees aglow and they reflected in the shallow water of the Little Blackfoot River near Avon, MT. Frozen motionless in the shadows was a deer, waiting for me to leave..
Painting water is a reoccurring theme in many of my paintings. I love to lead the viewers eye through the painting, then have the viewer discover little passages and wander there for a while.

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