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!
Work that’s won features:
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“Siblings” has been featured in three groups! Thank you!
All Animals Great and Small
Groups
Donna Ridgway is a member of ! # 1 ARTISTS OF REDBUBBLE !, ! 100% !, " You Big SOFTY", "Tone It Down"!, A Place To Call Home, A Vision Of Flight Photography (AS IS ONLY), Abstracts from Nature, Accentuate The Eyes, All About Flowers, All About Rodeos, All About Your Best Work, All Animals Great And Small., All Countries ~ Wetlands, Ponds, Lakes and Rivers , All Pets Great and Small, All Soft and Cuddlies !!, All That is Nature (Photography Only), Amateur Photographers' Association, Americas ~ Rural, Urban, Wild, Free, Animal Kingdom, Animal Portraits, Antlers, Racks, and Other Horned Animals, Baby Animals (3/day), BARNS! around the World!, Bears of the world, Best from Around the Barnyard , Birds and Creatures of Flight, Birds Of Prey (3 per day), Black and White Photography, Bokeh, Carousel Enchantment, Color and light, Communities, Country Bumpkin, Cutest of the Cute, Deer Me!!!, Dilapidated Buildings, Domestic and Pedigree Cats, Don't Fence Me In, Equine Art and Photography, Everyday Life, Everything Draft Horse, Eye Contact, Fabulous Flowers, Farms and Countryside, Featured Features - For Featured Art, Photography, T-Shirts, Writing, FEATURED ONLY, For the Love of Cats , 2 images a day, Freedom In Words and ART, Freedom to Shine, Funny Kritters, Green!, Horse and Rider , I Love Birds, Landscape and Abstract Photography, Landscape Photography, Light and Reflection 1/24, Livestock in General, LMAO ART - Your funniest work, Made By Nature - {2 a day}, Mans Best Friend's (Dogs only), MIRTH (Members Images Relating To Humour), Montana ~ The Treasure State, Mood & Ambience - Strictly Photos, Mother Nature's Finest, Mountains and Mountain Light, Nature's Wonders, Nude Pets, ONLY OWLS, Our K9 Friend 1 image a day, Outsiders, Painted Animals! , Paws n Claws 3 per day, Pets Are Us, phoDOGraphy, Photoshop Help, PixElations - The Art of Photoshop, Playful Photogenic Pets, Put Out! or Get Out!!!, Rabbit, rabbit!, Rustic, Safe Haven, Scenery, Sepia Only, Shameless Self-Promotion, Simply Horses, Snow! Glorious Snow!! 2 a day, Squirrels & Chipmunks, Stillness Speaks **Max 2 uploads per day** {{No NUDES, ABSTRACT, CANDIDS or ACTION IMAGES}}, Style! Class! Elegance! Excellence!, The Addicted Photographerâ–º2 Per Dayâ—„, The Birds, The Fabulous Prairies - 3/day, The Family Album, The Graphic Room-Graphic and Digital Art, The Patchwork , The Wild West Show, Those Colorful Paints (APHA) and Pintos, Top Shelf Wildlife & Nature Art, Traditional Equine Art: Horses, Ponies, and Unicorns!, Trees , 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 Nature Photography & Writing, Wildlife and Pet Paintings, Windows and Doors, Wolves & Wild Kin, Wolves in Art, Wondrous Workhorses, You're Accepted, Your Magic Place and Zoophoria (2 per day, approval required).
Journal Entries
Featured in Those Colorful Paints and Pintos
Posted 2 days ago, 7 comments so far.
I'd like to introduce you to a friend of mine.
Posted 3 days ago, 2 comments so far.
Top Ten and a feature.
Posted 4 days ago, 13 comments so far.
Featured!
Posted 5 days ago, 9 comments so far.
2 top tens and 2 features!!
Posted 5 days ago, 9 comments so far.
I'm Quite Excited!
Posted 6 days ago, 4 comments so far.
A Couple of Features
Posted 7 days ago, 5 comments so far.
Featured!
Posted 10 days ago, 6 comments so far.
Featured!
Posted 12 days ago, 5 comments so far.
Feature
Posted 12 days ago, 3 comments so far.
Art
Writing
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
Wind Dancing
Whirling and dancing-wondering what’s in store, / I give myself over to wind dancing!
Yamaha VS Horse
Lucky was huffing and puffing, and covered with black swamp mud, so I sat on the edge of dry ground and let him rest for a while
