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Story 01 · Northern range

The Wallow

The first morning left sage in the way. Eight days later, the herd filled the frame with dust.

Five frames · three mornings · eight days.

  1. i

    Roll

    The behavior is there. So is the sagebrush.

    Several bison roll in a sagebrush flat, legs raised behind dense soft foreground plants.
  2. ii

    Shake

    Head blurred to a dark smear, mud hanging in the air.

    A bison shakes its mud-darkened head among sagebrush, with small clods frozen in the air.
  3. iii

    Rinse

    Backlit water turns one shake into a field of droplets.

    A wet bison shakes its head, throwing a fine arc of sunlit water across a green meadow.
  4. iv

    Belly Up

    Four legs clear of the ground. The white of the eye showing.

    A bison rolls in a shallow dust wallow with all four legs raised and one eye visible.
  5. v

    The Herd

    The whole wallow disappears into a cloud of backlit dust.

    A bison herd moves through sunrise-lit dust, with a rolling animal's hooves raised in the center.

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