Glacier Gold

During my recent travels to Glacier National Park, I was fortunate to

witness some spectacular light shows under gorgeous alpine scenery.

This is the first of several images from the Many Glacier area of the

Park. Swiftcurrent Lake provided the reflecting pool in this image during

sunset as mammatus clouds stream overhead.

Comments welcome.

Beautiful light and colors. Excellent composition and foreground interest. Well done!

Spectacular is the word that came to my mind even before i read your intro.  This is a fantastic photo Harry.  Superb colors and reflection, nice movement in the clouds, perfect exposure.  This one is going to "my favorites" folder. Regards - michel

Beautiful, shot Harry! Love that sunset gold, and streaming cloud. Superbly composed, and expertly photographed.

All the best,
Neil

That's quite a shot, Harry, even down to getting separation from the rocks in the reflection.

Thanks for all of your comments - really appreciate the feedback.  I had some great storms, then clearings that swept through the park during my time there.  Made for some wet tenting, but grat photo opportunities.

Thanks all, Harry

Wow Harry, this is a real zinger! There is simply no place elsewhere on earth like Glacier, no place! This is fantastic. The last time I was there was in Sept of 1999. I spent about a week in Glacier while traveling for a total of a month, ending in southern Colorado. 28 days on the road and 25 of them were sunny and cloudless. Wet tent camping is really so much better from the standpoint of photography, but sucks from the standpoint of enjoyable camping. Needless to say, I had enjoyable camping, but the photography was at times almost uninspiring. This, however, is remarkable. Congrats to you!

A piece of art! Best regards, Linh Dinh

Gran trabajo.

Abrazoos.

Mark - This was my first visit to the park.  The great thing about Glacier compared to the many other cool places I've been was the accessability to wonderful trails and inspiring views, many day hikes away.  Of course, dawn and dusk often brings the crazy light so some areas required tenting.  Bears were a real concern while I was there, and I'm sure most times of years when the trails are passable.  Night hikes or early AM jaunts to a location were not in the cards.  70 % of the trails in the Many Glacier area were closed due to bears when I left for a 5 day backpack-we were to end our backpack on one of the closed trails so we hoped it would be opened by the time we reached that part of the trek.  Luckily it had re-opened by the time we got there.  Would love to return in the fall - September I guess, though not this September.

Harry

Wow beautiful capture and treatment. Fantastic!

Great shot, and an especially nice reflection; I also like the amount of detail you were able to show on the central mountain.  I had an encounter with a moose in this area, although I was briefly relieved that it was not a bear (we had counted about 20 on the hillside the previous evening).

Amazing Landscape Harry.

Superb foreground detail and hard gritty textures contrasting with soft movement in the sky. I particularly like the level of water transparency in the reflection of the central peak. Outstanding!

Regards

Alf

Stephen - I didn't see any moose in this area while there, but seeing 20 must have been a sight!  While backpacking near the Waterton side at Kootenai Lakes, I counted 8 in the water at the same time.  A couple of males with racks starting.  Unfortunately, the weather was a bit drizzly soo no great photo ops presented, but very cool none the less.

HArry

Harry, that was 20 grizzly bears (not moose) that we had seen at one time spread across the hillside above the campground.  I was on the trail the next morning well before sunrise, and to say I had a "heightened sense of awareness" is a great understatement.

beautiful!