Cloud Over The Sleeping Giant

This is an old photograph (from 1987) that I took from my yard on Kalispell Street in East Helena. The original photo was taken using a single-lens reflex camera with Ektachrome slide film as the medium. Due to houses and power poles in the immediate foreground, I forced the shot up to the sky so only the Big Belt Mountains appear at the bottom. You can see the Sleeping Giant at the left corner of the frame. This photo—to me—is filled with a great deal of tension because of both the cloud and the way I needed to frame with only a

small slice of landscape below.

--Mitchell Hegman