Donna Ridgway
Profile
A Native Montanan, I grew up in a family that homesteaded on the Rocky Mountain Front, near Dupuyer, Montana. I farmed and ranched most of my life.
My husband Robert and I now live at Vaughn, Mt. on two acres. He’s a cowboy poet and sometimes we combine our work.
Work was all important on the ranch, so it’s a great luxury and privilege for me, to have the time now, to take all the photos I want! I’m obsessed with my camera and the images it can capture.
While realizing I have a lot to learn, I go out and take photos, like I know what I’m doing. Lol. When things don’t turn out, or I can’t get my camera to do what I want, I study tutorials online and ask for help from friends.
I use a Nikon D300 and sometimes my old Canon 10D. My favorite lens, is the 70-300 mm that came with my cameras. I have other lenses and sometimes I use them.
All in all, what I love, is the scenery, abstract images, and animals that I find around me. I’d like to capture a little slice of Montana, as it is today, with a few wide open spaces left, and plenty of wildlife right outside my door!
“View my work by subject matter.”
Horse Photos, Mule Photos, Dog Art, Carousel Horse Art, Cow Art, Horse Art, Deer Photos, Montana Mountains, Dog Photos, Mountain Goat Photos, Cow Photos, Vintage Car Photos, Buffalo Photos, My Personal favorite horse photos, Abstract Photos, Donkey Photos, Rabbit Photos, Birds, Florals and Plants, Sunrise, Sunset, Insects, Farm Animals, Rodeo, Cat Photos and Art, Cute Rodents, Miscellaneous, Wolves, Elemental Equine, Mountain Sheep, Fox, Coyotes, etc, Elk, Antelope, Canines in Cars, Digital Art
“Work that’s won features”
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“Work in the Top Ten:”
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Banner challenge in Live and Let Live, 08/09
“Featured Member”
Deer Me!, Just Kidding (Goats around the World), The Fabulous Prairies
“Breezy Buckskins” was used for a challenge image in the Painter’s Only challenge in Country Bumpkin 8/09
“Kiss Me!” was used for a challenge image in the All Soft and Cuddlies altered animals challenge. 10/07/09
“Siblings” has been featured in six groups! Thank you!
All Animals Great and Small
Groups
Donna Ridgway hosts Montana and The Great Outdoors (no garden shots, limit man made objects to wilderness gear, please) and is a member of # 1 ARTISTS OF REDBUBBLE , ! ♦♣♠♥Ȃll Things Black ♥♠♣♦ !, Complex Simplicity of Art, ! $$☻Get Art Promoted☺$$ !, ! 100% !, " You Big SOFTY", "Tone It Down"! (3/day - No [EXPLETIVE] color allowed!), * Painted Nature *, *ACEO's - Art(ist) Cards Editions & Originals, A Place To Call Home, A Vision Of Flight Photography (AS IS ONLY) 2 per 24 hour period, Abstracts from Nature, Accentuate The Eyes, Akhal-Tekes, Arabs & Thoroughbreds, All About Flowers, All About Rodeos, All About Water, All About Your Best Work, All Animals Great And Small., All Around the Styles, All In, "Editing", All Original Blends, All Pets Great and Small, All Soft and Cuddlies !!, All That is Nature (Photography Only), All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical, Amateur Photographers' Association, Animal Fantasy & Whimsy, Animal Kingdom, Animal Photography -*4 legged & furry shots Only*, Animal Portraits, Animals in Action two a day , Antlers, Racks, and Other Horned Animals, APBT (American Pit Bull Terrier) lovers, Appaloosa & Spotted Horses/Ponies/Mules (NO Pintos!), Art By Bubble Hosts , As Is, Baby Animals (No Kittens or Puppies, 3/day), BARNS & Old Grist Mills and Covered Bridges from around the World!, Bears of the world, Best from Around the Barnyard {2 A Day}, Birds and Creatures of Flight, Birds Of Prey (3 per day), Black and White Photography, Bokeh, Bug Hunt! (with Location please), Butterflies, Skippers, Moths, & Other Winged Insects (2 a Day), Carousel Enchantment, Cee's Fun Artsy Friends, Challenge Café, Colour and light, Country Bumpkin, Cowboy / Cowgirl Art, Cutest of the Cute, Deer Me!!!, Digital Art Compilations (No Nudity Allowed), Digital Artists United, Digital Photography, Dilapidated Buildings, Dogs in Sports, Domestic and Pedigree Cats, Enchanting Powerful Photo Manipulation (2 per day), Equine Art and Photography, EQUINE ATHLETES, Equine Portrait Photography, Even-toed Ungulates (Mammals) Artiodactyla, Everyday Life, Everything Draft Horse & Carriage, Everything Winter, Extremely Positive, Eye Contact (Animals Only), Fabulous Flowers, Farms and Countryside, Featured Features - For Featured Art, Photography, T-Shirts, Writing, FEATURED ONLY, Flickr Heroes, Food for Thought, For the Love of Cats , 1 image a day , Freedom In Words & Art, Freedom to Shine, Friends of RedBubble, Funny Kritters, Green!, Horse and Rider , Horses at Work - Geared up.., Human and Nature, Human. Animal. Nature./Człowiek. Zwierzę. Natura. (2 per day, approval required) , Humour Captured, I Love Birds, Impressionism Café, Insects, Bugs and Creepy Crawlies (2 A Day), Just Butterflies, Just Fun, Just Kidding (goats of the world), Just Pure Nature., Landscape and Abstract Photography, Landscape Photography, Light and Reflection 1/24, Live and Let Live, Live, Love, Dream: , Livestock in General, LMAO ART - Your funniest work, Made By Nature - {2 a day} - {Nature images only!}, Made In Digital, Mans Best Friend's (Dogs only), Minimalist Landscapes, Mixed Media, Mood & Ambience - Strictly Photos, Mother Nature's Finest, Mountains and Mountain Light, Mutts, Nature's Wonders, Nikon DSLR Users Group - 2 uploads per 24 hours, Nude Pets - (2/24), Nuts about MUTTS *2 PHOTOS per day*, Old farts of redbubble, ONLY OWLS, Our K9 Friend 1 image a day (Dogs only), Outsiders, Painted Animals! , Paws n Claws <3 per day><Domestic cats & dogs only>, Personal Meaning Photography, Pets Are Us ~ 2 per day, phoDOGraphy, Photoshop Help, PixElations - The Art of Photoshop, Playful Photogenic Animals, Prairie Elevators of the Past, Quarter Horses, Rabbit, rabbit!, Railway Art and Photography, Retired and Happy. 2 a day limit., Rural Around The Globe, Rustic, Safe Haven, Scenery, Sepia Only, Sets of Two, Shameless Self-Promotion, Simply Horses, Snow Days, Snow! Glorious Snow!! 2 a day, Solo Exhibition, Squirrels & Chipmunks, Stillness Speaks **Max 2 uploads per day** {{No NUDES, ABSTRACT, CANDIDS or ACTION IMAGES}}, Style! Class! Elegance! Excellence!, Tabby Time ~ 3 per day, Textures Unlimited, The Addicted Photographer►2 Per Day◄, The Beauty of Nature (Nothing Man-Made), The Birds, The Collector's Corner, The Fabulous Prairies - 3/day, The Family Album, (Pics From the Past ONLY), The FENCE group, The Graphic Room-Graphic and Digital Art, The Great Hunter, The Patchwork , The Scavenger Hunt, The true beauty, The Wild West Show, The Woman Photographer **7 Submissions a week only please**, The World, Those Colorful Paints (APHA) and Pintos, Top Shelf Wildlife & Nature Art, Toy Dogs R Us!, Traditional Equine Art: Horses, Ponies, and Unicorns!, Trees - 2 images per day with trees as the focal point, Unlimited Quality, Vibrant and Vivid Color, War , Water Media (Paintings by hand only), Waterfowl, Western United States Artists and Photographers, Who are YOU to Judge?, Wild Birds in Flight, Wild Nature Photography & Writing, Wildlife and Pet Paintings, Windows and Doors, Wolves & Wild Kin, Wolves in Art, Wondrous Workhorses, Yellow Two, You're Accepted, Your Country's Best (2 images per day), Your Magic PLACE (only a place!) and Zoophoria (2 per day, approval required).
Journal Entries
Waterfalls! Featured in the Great Outdoors group.
Posted about 1 month ago, 2 comments so far.
Cattle like you have never seen them painted before!
Posted about 1 month ago, 11 comments so far.
Montana group challenges, need voters!
Posted about 1 month ago.
Features, Made it to 100!
Posted about 1 month ago, 4 comments so far.
WW0WW! What a challenge! It's in The Great Outdoors group!
Posted 2 months ago, 4 comments so far.
Five features while we were gone!
Posted 2 months ago, 10 comments so far.
Joy and Sorrow
Posted 2 months ago, 8 comments so far.
Three features!
Posted 2 months ago, 10 comments so far.
There's a mighty challenge going on over in the Great Outdoors!
Posted 2 months ago.
The Great Outdoors, Group avatar challenge!
Posted 2 months ago, 2 comments so far.
Art
Writing
This Coyote's not Dead
When they arrived at the bar, Robert’s dad carried the coyote in, the guy paid him for it, and put the coyote in a cooler in the back room.
Me, Uncle Bill and the Bob Marshall
With no where else to go, the other horses jumped over me and I can remember looking up at their bellies and legs and counting them as they went by so I’d know when it was safe to get up.
Spiff it up!
When Robert heard me say, “Spiff it up”, he had remaining orders flying through his mind, from the coyote episode. He thought I said, “Speed it up!”
Little Creek Tunnel, Merry Brook
Little Creek tunnel / Babbbling sounds, / Elk, deer, coyote, tracks abound.
The Meadow in the Pines
Your soul knows the tune, but your mind / Could never write the notes / It’s you and God and the forest and the snow
Where I Want to Be
The trees a mystical haven / My soul knows their ancient language / I love the stories they tell
