Glacier Park at Dawn. (A larger scan is in the folder.)

Any thoughts about cropping a bit more at the bottom and sides?

a stylus epic huh? Fantastic Bill!

Nice job of metering. Well composed powerful image.

man, i gotta get me one of those Epics...they take SUCH nice pictures :) seriously, this defines a true photographer. amazing shot made with limited tools. Who needs an F5 or 1v when you got luck! oh yeah...and the cropping is perfect.

wow! excellent use of light. i don't see much to improve on.

It's simply BEAUTUFUL !!!! I have no words to say anything more.

Thnaks Bill.

Excellent photo, I can't disagree at all with the elves, this picture is great. Congrats on your Photo Of the Week!

Congrats on Photo of the Week! When does the gold rush at Glacier National Park begin? I'll be there.

The elves forgot the element of 50% luck. ;-)

You don't find a glow in the dark mountain everyday. Wow! Good timing, composition and cropping.

 

 

 

...I suppose you will tell us that it is hand held, too...

Thanks for sharing this with us, Bill. It really looks incredible at first glance. It is rare to catch a moment of lighting as perfect as this - and the cool sky and clouds add a wonderful backdrop to the scene.

I bought a Stylus Epic for my wife. I haul around an F100 with several lenses. Who is wiser?? Keep up the good work!

I intially thought it wasa pyramid. Absolutly great catch! Perfect exposure.

Great Shot!

 

Cheers from northwest Montana.

 

amazing photo.

Nice pic, just wondering if you took more at that time with alternate settings. The mountain is slightly over exposed and the forground is under exposed. You were at the right place at the right time. I would love to see a variety of exposeres of this shot. A shorter exposure would turn the forground into a beautiful silhoette and the mountain would have more detail. Just an idea. I try to take every shot with multiple settings and write them down. Good picture though.

I absolutely agree with the elves on the issue of people obsessing over gear just for the sake of gear. An image is created by the photographer and their sense of timing, composition, etc. However, in this sort of scenerio, a graduated neutral desity filter could have brought the highlights down a bit, to the point where a little more detail would be captured in the foreground. However, it may have been the scan that exagerated the depth of the shadows.

 

Congratulations Bill! This sunrise must have been one of those three minute moments where you tingle with happiness!

 

David

Yea! Really nice. Maybe cut it to a 6X6 format. The mountin feels more then?

Beautiful and inspiring.

Thats some sweet luck, to get to see something that beautifull and be able to capture it with such limited gear. Nice job....Well deserved win.

Just goes to show you, sometimes you don't need the most professional gear, nor the best lenses but plain old skill and a little luck to get great shots like this.

 

Wonderful, wish I was there at the time, I think I would actually have a use for my high speed motor drive! haha.

 

Great stuff, good job keeping your "eye" open and taking the time to get a great shot while everyone was probally sleeping.

 

Mike.

Lovely shot. Shows what you can capture when you haul your keester out of bed in the early hours. Paying attention and being prepared to make the most of your "luck".

This is going to make me sound like an equipment nut, but will this image look as good when enlarged to 30x40? Or even at 11x14?

 

No doubt this is a great shot but it would have been much better if taken with a 8x10 or 4x5 camera. With some minor movements you can get the clouds in focus. There would be more details in the trees at the foot of the mountain. And with some on camera dodging, you can reduce the contrast and pull more colors out of the buildings. That last statement migh upset all the graduated ND filter people.

I don't think it's anything special. I don't like the underexposed foreground, and the dead-center mountain makes it very static.

One of those photo's where you think what the hell is going on here??? and then WOW!!!!

In a hurry eh? Well good job then! You really did a good job at capturing that crepuscular mountain. It really brings that grey/brown mountain to life!

Excellent, except the composition: the bottom dark side takes to much place in the photo, while the beautiful sky takes too little. I suppose you relayed on a much-lighted bottom, which would have made a great photo maybe (have to see it before being sure). But relying on a camera's auto settings, I would have taken two or tree different composed shuts (I say so now, but I don't really know what I would have done in your place).

 

I agree by 100% with the opinion that great photos can be made with modest means, but great talent and inspiration. And I add: not only the equipment can be modest, but also the subject - important is not what the artist shows us, but how he makes us to look to it.

 

PS: I don't score photos because not comfortable with the two criteria, so I'm adding only comments.