Jocko Lakes Wildfire

My friend and I were in Montana for a wedding and on our way back from Glacier

National Park we were forced to take several detours due to a huge fire. Upon

cresting a hill, I looked up, saw this landscape in front of us and said, "OMG, Pull over!

It looks like Aliens are shining their spaceship lights on the earth...." I put my trusty

G7 into Panoramic mode and took several handheld stitch shots....

That is indeed some special lighting. Nice catch!

Very nice pan. Was it a tall standing plume before it looked like this, or did the column just push straight across?

The Jocko Lakes fire was a huge fire and it spanned 18000 acres, so there were various fires spread throughout the area. Everywhere we looked there seemed to be a fire erupting. The picture was taken in the late afternoon and it actually looked pitch black in some areas. It was snowing flakes of ash....Jimmy

This has all that a great landscape needs to be great; thanks for showing us some incredible view in such a good photograph.