SNAPSHOT

While exploring a FWP block management area south of Miles City, Billings photographer Alexis Bonogofsky came across this Woodhouse’s toad, a small amphibian native to eastern Montana. “I was on a sandstone formation along the Tongue River, and these little two-inch-long toads were hanging out all over the place,” she says. “I wanted to get a closeup of this guy, so I got down on my belly with my 50 mm lens and started shooting, closing the aperture to blur the background and foreground and put the picture’s focus on the toad.” Bonogofsky says that most eastern Montana photography is about big things—sky, prairie, and trophy elk, mule deer, and pronghorn. “With this shot, I wanted to focus on something small and remarkable that people generally don’t even notice.” n