Yellowstone National Park

Elk Bugling, Mammoth

A bull elk in full cry among the sagebrush at Mammoth Hot Springs, a corner of Yellowstone where elk live all year round.

Bull elk bugling, Mammoth Hot Springs
Bull elk bugling, Mammoth Hot Springs
Bull elk bugling, Mammoth Hot Springs shown in a limewash reading corner beside an armchair and a floor lamp - scale render at 45 × 30 cm
Bull elk bugling, Mammoth Hot Springs shown in a graphite plaster wall at night, lit by a console lamp - scale render at 45 × 30 cm
Bull elk bugling, Mammoth Hot Springs shown in a beamed room with a greige plaster wall above a long oak sideboard - scale render at 45 × 30 cm
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Material
Size (cm)
Frame
Specification
45 × 30 cm
3 mm Aluminium
No Frame
Mount Kit Included
Price
$140

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About this work
Bull elk bugling, Mammoth Hot Springs

The bull is mid-bugle, chest-deep in sagebrush, head raised and muzzle open, a shadowed hillside and a single conifer behind him. He was photographed at Mammoth Hot Springs in mid-September 2017, inside the elk rut, which runs from early September to mid-October.

Bulls bugle to announce their availability and fitness to the cows, and to warn and challenge rival bulls. Nothing visible leaves the mouth here: the morning air carries no plume of breath, so the call registers only in the stance. The rack laid back over his shoulders is true bone, an extension of the skull grown each spring and dropped again in March or April. Elk live at Mammoth year-round, often feeding on lawns irrigated since the US Cavalry planted them in 1902, though none of that is in this frame.

Materials

Metal
The edge of a Madtag aluminium print, a thin bright line, floating clear of a dark wall.

Nothing between you and the picture.

  • The surface for work that wants light.
  • Colour at full strength; blacks hold their depth.
  • Sealed under gloss: no frame, no glazing.
  • 3 mm aluminium composite, floats clear of the wall.
Arrives flat, hanging system included
Paper
A Madtag print on a sheet of matte fine art paper, curling at one corner to show its thickness.

Hahnemühle, not poster paper.

  • When you want the best.
  • Unframed, it is Hahnemühle: photographs on Photo Rag 308, 100% cotton.
  • Painterly work on German Etching 310, mould-made and textured.
  • Over 300 gsm, printed as a pigment giclée.
Arrives rolled in a Madtag tube
Framed
The corner of a Madtag print in a black wood frame, the sheet flush against the moulding behind acrylic, no mount board.

For the wall you want finished.

  • Framed and finished; no trip to a framer.
  • A different print: 200 gsm coated silk, made as one piece.
  • Black, white or natural wood moulding.
  • Acrylic glazing, no mount board: the sheet fills the frame.
Arrives flat in its frame
Canvas
A Madtag print on stretched canvas with a solid black wrapped edge.

Nothing lost around the corner.

  • Occupies the room rather than hanging flat.
  • Stretched over a 40 mm deep FSC wood frame.
  • No glazing; the weave itself takes the light.
  • The picture stops at the face; edges solid black, always.
Arrives stretched and ready to hang
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