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Bighorn ram picking his way across dramatic angular talus slope near Ennis Montana, powerful horns, mid-stride, fine art wildlife photography by Tamara Gooch.
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Talus King — Bighorn Ram, Montana Fine Art Print

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On a talus slope outside of Ennis, Montana, in the country north of Yellowstone where the geology turns angular and the mountains begin in earnest, a bighorn ram picks his way across the broken rock with the unhurried, absolute confidence of an animal for whom this terrain is not an obstacle but a home. Talus King captures that confidence in a single, precisely observed frame — the ram mid-stride across a field of dramatically angular dark rock, his powerful haunches driving him upward with an ease that makes the difficulty of the terrain feel like a misunderstanding, the full curl of his horns marking him as a mature animal in his prime, accustomed to the kind of country that stops most other creatures at the base. The talus slope fills the entire frame behind and around him, the angular shards of dark Montana rock creating a backdrop of extraordinary texture and geological drama that throws the warm tones of the ram's winter coat into sharp, graphic relief. This is the bighorn in its true element — not the open meadow or the valley floor but the high, broken, vertiginous terrain where the hooves are cloven and the balance is perfect and the only predators that can follow are the ones born to the same rock. The country north of Yellowstone toward Ennis is some of the most productive bighorn habitat in the American West, and the animals that live in it carry the particular quality of wildness that only the most demanding landscapes produce. On ChromaLuxe Metal or Lumachrome HD TruLife Acrylic, the extraordinary geological texture and the powerful, sure-footed energy of Talus King make it a compelling and distinctive addition to the American West wildlife collection — a natural companion to Full Curl for collectors drawn to the bighorn sheep of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

Limited edition of 50. Photo © copyright by Tamara Gooch.

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ULTRA LUMACHROME® HD TRULIFE® ACRYLIC PRINT

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