Let's Not Butt-Heads

A little over a month ago I was up in Butte, Montana. I was visiting a friend and had asked her if she wanted to go on a photographing journey to Ousel Falls.

Ousel Falls is about an hour and a half south west of Bozeman, Montana.

It was an amazing and such a beautiful day. The Falls were absolutely beautiful. If you ever get a chance to go and photograph Waterfalls, Ousel Falls should be on your bucket list. It's absolutely beautiful.

Anyways, on our way back to Butte we saw a group of these Long-horned Rams on the side of the road. I couldn't pass up this amazing shot. I grabbed my canon rebel T-6 and my 24-70 mm lens. I wanted to have a crisp shot. These beautiful animals weren't that far away and I knew that I could zoom in without losing the high quality that I was looking for.

But, of course if you know anything about photography, a 24-70 mm lens is one of the top prime lenses to have in your arsenal for photography. It's 13 blades of glass in the lens brings such a clarity to your pictures, that you will feel like your right there up close and personal with whatever your shooting. That's why I enjoy shooting with this particular lens all the time. You can use it for scenery/landscape, wildlife, city scape, food pictures, portraiture, and boudoir shots. You will have such an amazing quality to your pictures that will blow away the minds of other people with the clarity of your pictures that you take.

Anyways, we see this group of rams feeding alongside the road and I tell my friend Lori to stop. She pulled off the road as much as she could so other vehicles could still get by. I grab my camera and my 24-70 mm lens and get out of her vehicle and slowly walk about 1/10 of a mile up the road so I was directly across from this group of long horned rams. I got down at eye shot level with these beautiful animals and took some random shots looking for the right light composition.

Vehicles were slowing and people were taking pictures with there cell phones. The light composition was constantly changing between light and cloudy. I switched my camera over to manual mode, because automatic mode just wasn't giving me the full control of my camera that I wanted. I set my aperture to F-22 and the ISO to 200, and the shutter speed to 1/4,000 of a second. I waited for the last of the vehicles to get by. I gave the long horned rams a long wolf whistle. (Hoping to God that I didn't get charged and head butted) I stayed hunched down behind the guard rail, and there was my shot. Click, click, click, click. I stayed there for a couple of minutes and just watched and took in the beauty of these absolutely, amazing, breath-taking, dangerous and magnificence animals.

I slowly got up from my crouching position, kept my eye on these long horned sheep and slowly back away while keeping eye contact. I got back inside Lori's suv and looked at the pictures that I took. When I saw this one, I knew beyond the shadow of a doubt, that this one is National Geo-graphic Magazine worthy.

I haven't submitted it to there magazine yet as I get busy with other photographic journeys in the upper northwest corner of the United States. This last weekend, we, Lori and I, had went to Teton National Park in hopes to getting some awesome and amazing shots of the grizzly bear 399 and her cubs.

I am always, it seems like, putting myself in dangerous positions just to get some amazing shots of beautiful and destructive animals. I'm no Steve Irwing, I'm Casey Joe Keller and this is my story and results of taking some beautiful shots of amazing animals that were across the highway where I took this shot.

In the next couple of weeks, I am going to have this picture professionally matted and framed in this oval shape and add it to my ever-growing collection of beautiful prints that inhabit the walls in my home.

I'm 47 years old, and my goal is to put all my things in a storage shed and buy an RV and a tow dolly for my car and travel the fifty states and take pictures of all the national parks. After that, I would upload my prints to stock photo companies like Adobe, Shutterstock, and Dreamstime and build a residual income for my daughter to live off of well after I am gone.

I bet you're wondering why to get a tow dolly for my car. I enjoy being of service to others. I would continue to be a door dash driver while pursuing my goal and dream of being a national accredited photographer.

But life isn't about the dream and what we can achieve. Life is about the journey and the steps we take each day that gets us there for God's glory.