We want to invite you to our neck of the woods for a new and fun Adventure, Western Landscapes, Critters and Storm Chasing! We will be based out of Great Falls, MT and heading out each day for magnificent landscapes, Bison, Sheep, Pronghorn, birds and in the evening, big skies and thunderstorms. It’s a part of the country that few explore with a camera, providing amazing vistas to bring back in your memories. Afternoons will be amazing with old forts in the foreground, the skies putting on an amazing lightning storm with massive clouds for a background. This is also the home of the amazing Charlie Russell Museum. It will be a fantastic week!

We are looking for four folks to explore with us 27 July – 01 August, 2026. The price is $1950 which includes pickup and delivery from Great Falls airport, transportation, education and entertainment. We’d love you to join us and if you’re intrigued and want to do that, we are grateful. You can reach out to Sharon 406. 240. 3503 and she’ll hook you up.

Long before medevacs and the hilos we have today, getting someone in a remote or rural area urgent care was by car. In the 1930s & 40s in Canada, even that wasn’t an option for rural folks especially in winter. That’s when the Air Ambulance service came into being, saving thousands of lives. Flying in the dead of night in the dead of winter, landing on snow on a strip lit by the headlights of Model Ts, that took skill and a large set of *^$#! And they did just that and a lot more. I’m thrilled EAA Vintage ran this story, they rocked it!

C2PA – Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity – came to the Z 6III with the 2.0 Firmware update. This is cutting edge, brand new stuff (Beta) and with it being new, questions pop up. The first is, “I installed the firmware update but can’t find C2PA in the menus!” That’s is correct, it’s not there until you finish up installing it via the Nikon Imaging Cloud website. In short, your Z 6III (only Nikon currently capable of C2PA) talks to the Nikon Cloud where the certificate is created that then resides in the Z 6III. Before going further and giving you the impression I fully understand this new technology, I do not. But I have done a deep dive in the past 24hrs and want to share what I’ve learned. The most important things are, this is Beta and, this will be important in the years to come.

What does this all do for you? The short story is, it creates a document that another party can access (if attached to the image) with all, and I mean all, that has been done to a particular image since the shutter went click. Nikon created a page (you need to be signed in to view) with a short rundown into C2PA. If you have the latest version of Ps, in the Window drop-down menu you will see Content Credentials (Beta) which I have just started to explore. What’s the purpose of all of this? In the short form, it’s to assure the viewer that what they are seeing is what was photographed and not created by AI. In the long form, the implications are far-reaching. For now, I just wanted to explain why you don’t automatically see the option in your menu and provide a little insight into where this technology might be going. It is cool and a hat tip to Nikon for spearheading this effort as C2PA comes to the Z 6III.

Ami’s gift to engage our hearts with her stories is a true gift! Her latest The Last Rhinos: A New Hope, is magnificent and is simply, a must see!