Ryan Jordan

Posts Tagged ‘fly fishing’

Lake Chain Packrafting

Slow paddling through mountain lake chains offers a unique type of solitude and an entirely different way of seeing “routes”. In recent years, it’s become one of my favorite ways to travel through the mountains. The Martin Lake Chain in the Beartooth Range is a case in point. A traverse of this basin by foot, […]

Tenkara Bums and More

Little bits of random goodness about Tenkara fly fishing gear, technique, and people. Tenkara Bums I do possess totally nerdy roots as a computer programmer and can remember even as a kid my obsession with what eventually became known as “program bumming” – the removal of code that results in no loss of efficiency (and […]

Fan Creek, Yellowstone National Park (Sigma DP1)

  Fan Creek, Yellowstone National Park Sigma DP1, ISO 50, f/8, 1/250 sec.

Firehole River Dreaminess (Sigma DP1)

  Firehole River Near Ojo Caliente, Yellowstone National Park Sigma DP1, ISO 100, f/11, 13 sec. My favorite things about photographing in Yellowstone:   I can fly fish, too. On the night I took this shot in 2008, the caddis hatch was on. Sunsets almost always bring pinks, and Velvia 50, or the Foveon sensor, […]

Dreaming of Favorite Places

South Fork Flathead River, Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex – a favorite place. (Photo: Sigma DP2) I got a message this morning from a PR agency in San Francisco that I started my day off with a good laugh: “Now that the weather has finally warmed up for good, it’s time to head outdoors!” I had […]