The Beacon’s 2025 photographic panorama stretched from the stark expanses of the Blackfeet Nation, to the marbled halls of the state Capitol, throughout the huge waters of Flathead Lake, to the tops of Glacier’s highest peaks, and onto protester-filled streets. The 12 months delivered its share of turbulence in each politics and nature. Montana’s dynamic vary reinforces pictures is as a lot an artwork of capturing moments as it’s an train in distillation. Of 50,000+ presses of the shutter this 12 months, solely about 5,000 of the resultant pictures made the minimize for firming, captioning and submitting into the archives. Those 5,000 frames have been additional culled to lower than 50 for the end-of-year gallery.
The rotunda ceiling of the Capitol in Helena on Jan. 16, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconSen. Mike Cuffe enjoys a burger within the Senate Chambers within the Capitol in Helena on Jan. 16, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconRep. Tom Millett speaks to the House Judiciary Committee together with his copy of the Montana and U.S. Constitutions on the rostrum at The Capitol in Helena on Jan. 16, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconDeputy Sergeant-at-Arms Craig Fraley at his submit exterior the Senate Chambers within the Capitol in Helena on March 25, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconThe wheels of a timber harvester within the Round Star Project space west of Whitefish on Jan. 22, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconBison caretakers Joe LaPlant and Adrian Costel put together to load a harvested bison from the Blackfeet Bison Program herd onto a truck on the prairie east of Browning on Feb. 6, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconEli Neill holds the center of a bison throughout a Blackfeet Bison Program harvest at AMS Ranch east of Browning on Feb. 6, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconSuper 1 Foods grocery retailer mirrored in a puddle of snowmelt in Kalispell on Feb. 24, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconNatalie Idleman fashions in a pure chilly plunge pool in Lakeside for the Style part of the spring 2025 version of Flathead Living on Feb. 25, 2025. A chair is framed by a gap within the wall of one of many upstairs rooms of the nineteenth century Scandinavian Methodist church in Kalispell on March 11, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconLiam Benson of the Bigfork Vikings pitches on the inaugural recreation at Flathead Beacon Field in Bigfork on April 17, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconLena Camero and about 40 others gathered to protest the detention of Beker Rengifo del Castillo on the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Station in Whitefish on April 24, 2025. Rengifo del Castillo is a Venezuelan asylum seeker who had taken up residence within the Flathead Valley. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconPaddlers with Montana Silver Lining and the Montana Canoe Club paddle a double hulled canoe on Flathead Lake in Big Arm on May 25, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconAvalanche lily on Blacktail Mountain on May 17, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconA rotary snow blower parked on Logan Pass in Glacier National Park on May 19, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconA younger archer collects fired arrows from round beaded targets in a discipline at Iinnii Days in Browning on June 5, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconA person is arrested by police on the “No Kings Protest” at Depot Park in Kalispell on June 14, 2025. Similar protests in opposition to President Trump and his administration passed off on across the nation. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconA cat and birds perched on a fenceline off of Four Mile Drive in Kalispell on June 25, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconSunrise displays on the glassy waters of Logging Lake in Glacier National Park on June 28, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconBowman Lake, Mount Carter and Rainbow Glacier as considered from the summit of Rainbow Peak in Glacier National Park on July 8, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconUnderwater view of an outdated tree in Bowman Lake in Glacier National Park on July 9, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconIndian Relay staff member Devyn Campbell of the Blackfeet Nation stretches in opposition to a horse trailer forward of the races at North American Indian Days in Browning on July 11, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconAn Indian Relay racer leaps from his horse on the finish of a lap at North American Indian Days in Browning on July 11, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconThe Brothers Comatose carry out at Under the Big Sky music competition in Whitefish on July 18, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconLeigh Lake, Snowshoe Peak, “A” Peak, and Granite Lake within the Cabinet Mountain Wilderness on July 20, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconLow water ranges in Chain Lake on ranch land within the Heart Butte space of the Blackfeet Reservation on July 28, 2025. The area suffered from drought till unseasonably heavy late summer season rains offered aid. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconBoats take their positions on the Montana Cup crusing event at daybreak on Flathead Lake on Aug. 3, 2025. The annual competitors attracts dozens of crusing crews from round Montana and Idaho. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconContract college bus driver Gerard Byrd on the wheel of one in all his buses at his residence in Martin City on Aug. 28, 2025. Gerard ferried college students all through the Canyon for 42 years, driving a complete of some 1.2 million miles on some the worst roads in Montana. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconHeavy rain on a Kalispell metropolis road on Sept. 13, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconRacers velocity away from the beginning line on the Keller Ranch Snowmobile Grass Drags in Kalispell on Sept. 20, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconA person approaches a herd of horses grazing in view of Chief Mountain close to Babb on Sept. 29, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconFallen maple leaves in morning gentle in Woodland Park in Kalispell on Oct. 9, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconSound engineer Toby Scott pictured in his recording studio in downtown Whitefish on Oct. 17, 2025. Scott recorded and mastered a lot of rock legend Bruce Springsteen’s music over the course of his profession. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconA “No Kings” protest alongside the Kalispell Bypass on Oct. 18, 2025. Similar protests in opposition to President Trump and his administration passed off on across the nation. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconDonna Roberts, age 99, is pictured along with her baseball memorabilia at her daughter’s residence in Frenchtown on Nov. 1, 2025. Roberts, then Stageman, performed within the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which existed from 1943 to 1954. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconAfton Hatch (15) of the Polson Pirates celebrates his staff’s 4-0 victory with followers on the Class A State Championship in opposition to the Whitefish Bulldogs at Polson High School on Nov. 1, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconGlacier Wolfpack celebrates their AA State Championship win, besting the Billings West Golden Bears 16-3 at Legends Stadium in Kalispell on Nov. 21, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconAn inversion over the Flathead Valley as considered from close to the summit of Big Mountain at Whitefish Mountain Resort on Nov. 30, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconA washed-out bridge on Farm to Market Road over Libby Creek in Libby on Dec. 12, 2025. Persistent rains and snowmelt induced historic flooding in Lincoln County and round Northwest Montana. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead Beacon Evermay Mitchell sits with a picket urn containing the ashes of her son Riley McConnell in her Kalispell residence on Dec. 15, 2025. McConnell, age 20, died from a fentanyl overdose on June 14, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconA robust windstorm with gusts as much as 70 mph produces huge waves on Flathead Lake at Wayfarers State Park in Bigfork on Dec. 17, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead BeaconA tree toppled by a windstorm crushed the roof of the Conrad Mansion’s gazebo in Kalispell on Dec. 17, 2025. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead Beacon