Big Lost River

It's been on the cold side for September. Snow on the mountains and even on the valley floors for a day or so. The leaves are just starting to turn but it's felt like late October. Elk are bugling and sand hill cranes are on their annual migration south making their pre-historic garble as they circle at great heights and barley stubble and cheat grass and even rabbitbrush have taken on their yellow hues while smoke bellows out of a two-room house chimney along a ditch somewhere in Mackay, Idaho.

Lost River Range. Mid-September. Idaho.

Used Nikon D810 Camera

I am selling my used Nikon D810 camera body. I am the original owner and have owned it for approx. 17 months. I have the original box and users manual. The reason I'm selling it is that I'll be purchasing the Nikon D850 in the months to come. This camera is in very good condition. I am asking $1,800.

email inquiries to: nickpricephotography@gmail.com

Here are the specs:

  • 36.3MP FX-Format CMOS Sensor
  • EXPEED 4 Image Processor
  • No Optical Low Pass Filter
  • 3.2" 1,229k-Dot LCD Monitor
  • Full HD 1080p Video at 60/30/24 fps
  • Multi-CAM 3500FX 51-Point AF Sensor
  • Native ISO 12800, Extended to ISO 51200
  • 5 fps Shooting at Full Resolution
  • Electronic Front Curtain Shutter
  • 14-Bit RAW Files and 12-Bit RAW S Format

Limited Edition Prints of Rising Silver Creek Trout

Excited to pick up from the framer my first limited edition prints. The three prints are each 16" x 24" with a frame size of 24 3/4" x 32". I view them as a set of three. They cost $1,200 (framed) individually or $3,000 (also framed) for the set of three. I am limiting each image to 100 prints plus an artists proof.

The images were shot this July on Silver Creek.

You can email me with any questions: nickpricephotography@gmail.com

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Livingston, Montana

A few images from a recent photo assignment in Livingston, Montana:

Dan Lahren. "Dangerous Dan." Livingston, MT August 2017. Dan was Jim Harrison's guide for many years and even guided Harrison as many as 70 days in a single season. Dan is pictured in his living room.

Longtime Livingston fly fishing guide, Dan Lahren, at The Murray Bar.

Callan Wink. Livingston fly fishing guide and writer. The Murray Bar.

The Sawtooths

Smoky skies are the new norm for August. Thunderstorms have been rolling through too, compounding the surreal color cast with a muggy and palpable sky. Sometimes it smells like sweet pipe smoke. The rest of the time it's not discernible to my nose. Burning sage and bitterbrush to the south and I suppose some cheatgrass as well. Lodgepole pines are getting cremated to the north. A visual amalgamation of sorts: muted, Impressionistic, cold-blue in August, and teary-eyed. 

Sawtooths & Smoke. August 2017. Idaho.

Sawtooths & Smoke. August 2017. Idaho.

Silver Creek Rainbow

Heat of the day. Packed SUV's leave dust contrails on their way north with float tubes plastered to the roofs. Pretty soon Silver Creek is left with those who don't know any better or those who hope the weed beds will soon be smothered in a giant blue orgy. I've banked on it plenty of times and come up empty handed. It's a bit of a roll of the dice, but when it happens and enough fish are keyed into Damselflies, it'll make for a memorable afternoon.

A Silver Creek rainbow after taking a Damselfly.