greenpea
Oct-05-2007, 12:26 PM
I suppose I need to get a few of my pics posted so here goes.
On Monday September 24, Devbobo, mike and I took the 16 hour train trip from Seattle to East Glacier. I was really excited at the potential for taking pictures from the train, but as it turns out, its a lot harder to get good photographs from a moving train than I thought. However that didn't stop devbobo from trying...
http://InitialPhotography.smugmug.com/photos/202273545-M.jpg
Although everyone else seems to have a similar version of this picture, I had to post mine because this was one of the last images captured with my Nikon D70 before it died shortly after getting back to the room from this Thursday morning shoot. There were no more picture taken by me on Thursday despite an encounter with a bear and its cub, a visit to Waterton Lakes park, countless mule deer and a great hike above the falls near the village in Waterton Lakes Park (so image images).
http://InitialPhotography.smugmug.com/photos/203053218-M.jpg
On Friday morning, Christina saved my trip by loaning me her Nikon D50 which I used for the rest of the trip. After the morning shoot we joined a caravan of 5 or six cars all heading for the town of East Glacier. Everyone had a walkie talkie (no cell service in the area) and the rule was, if you saw something you wanted to take a picture of announce to the caravan and we'd all stop.
One of our first stops was at a pull off that had a little trail heading down the hill side. At the bottom of the trail was a little memorial to "Grandma". Yes, again there are plenty of pictures posted of the cross, but I like this one because it looks like Nikolai is visiting the memorial to pay his respects to "Grandma"...
http://InitialPhotography.smugmug.com/photos/203050635-M.jpg
As we got closer to East Glacier the scenry seemed to get more and more interesting. We couldn't seem to get enough images of the leaves turning on the aspens (when we arrived on Tuesday the aspens were mostly green, by the time we left on Sunday had gone from green to yellow and some were turning red!)
http://InitialPhotography.smugmug.com/photos/204206610-M.jpg
After a vist to the town of East Glacier and Twin Medicine Lake, the rest of the caravan headed East to the town of Browning but Mike and I headed back up North to St. Mary. On the way back I wanted to get a picture of a Montana road lined with aspens. Here are a couple of my Montana road & aspen pics.
http://InitialPhotography.smugmug.com/photos/204203357-M.jpg
http://InitialPhotography.smugmug.com/photos/204204916-M.jpg
On the way from East Glacier to St. Mary, you cross over a pass through an area that had been hit hard by forrest fire earlier in the summer. From the top of the pass the road works its way back down to the valley where St. Mary lake. Here is a picture from that road looking down to the vally.
http://InitialPhotography.smugmug.com/photos/204201771-M.jpg
On Saturday, David_S85, Bender, Mike and I hopped in the car with the goal of capturing some wildlife picture (I was still distraught about the fact I didn't have my camera when I had previously seen a bear). It had rained the night before but the snow line was only a few hundred feet above St. Mary. This made for some interesting landscape photo opportunities with the evergreens, yellow aspens, and snow line. But I wanted my wild life photos.
http://InitialPhotography.smugmug.com/photos/204205551-M.jpg
http://InitialPhotography.smugmug.com/photos/204202435-M.jpg
After passing up too many landscape opportunities in the hunt for wildlife, David_S85 took off on his own. Bender, Mike and I continued on and we saw mountain goats (too far off for any of my lenses), lots of bald eagles (again too far off), and this one very well photographed coyote...
http://InitialPhotography.smugmug.com/photos/204205962-M.jpg
The scenery was amazing, the wildlife was plentiful, but the highlight for me was just getting to meet and go out and shoot with so many other dgrinners!
On Monday September 24, Devbobo, mike and I took the 16 hour train trip from Seattle to East Glacier. I was really excited at the potential for taking pictures from the train, but as it turns out, its a lot harder to get good photographs from a moving train than I thought. However that didn't stop devbobo from trying...
http://InitialPhotography.smugmug.com/photos/202273545-M.jpg
Although everyone else seems to have a similar version of this picture, I had to post mine because this was one of the last images captured with my Nikon D70 before it died shortly after getting back to the room from this Thursday morning shoot. There were no more picture taken by me on Thursday despite an encounter with a bear and its cub, a visit to Waterton Lakes park, countless mule deer and a great hike above the falls near the village in Waterton Lakes Park (so image images).
http://InitialPhotography.smugmug.com/photos/203053218-M.jpg
On Friday morning, Christina saved my trip by loaning me her Nikon D50 which I used for the rest of the trip. After the morning shoot we joined a caravan of 5 or six cars all heading for the town of East Glacier. Everyone had a walkie talkie (no cell service in the area) and the rule was, if you saw something you wanted to take a picture of announce to the caravan and we'd all stop.
One of our first stops was at a pull off that had a little trail heading down the hill side. At the bottom of the trail was a little memorial to "Grandma". Yes, again there are plenty of pictures posted of the cross, but I like this one because it looks like Nikolai is visiting the memorial to pay his respects to "Grandma"...
http://InitialPhotography.smugmug.com/photos/203050635-M.jpg
As we got closer to East Glacier the scenry seemed to get more and more interesting. We couldn't seem to get enough images of the leaves turning on the aspens (when we arrived on Tuesday the aspens were mostly green, by the time we left on Sunday had gone from green to yellow and some were turning red!)
http://InitialPhotography.smugmug.com/photos/204206610-M.jpg
After a vist to the town of East Glacier and Twin Medicine Lake, the rest of the caravan headed East to the town of Browning but Mike and I headed back up North to St. Mary. On the way back I wanted to get a picture of a Montana road lined with aspens. Here are a couple of my Montana road & aspen pics.
http://InitialPhotography.smugmug.com/photos/204203357-M.jpg
http://InitialPhotography.smugmug.com/photos/204204916-M.jpg
On the way from East Glacier to St. Mary, you cross over a pass through an area that had been hit hard by forrest fire earlier in the summer. From the top of the pass the road works its way back down to the valley where St. Mary lake. Here is a picture from that road looking down to the vally.
http://InitialPhotography.smugmug.com/photos/204201771-M.jpg
On Saturday, David_S85, Bender, Mike and I hopped in the car with the goal of capturing some wildlife picture (I was still distraught about the fact I didn't have my camera when I had previously seen a bear). It had rained the night before but the snow line was only a few hundred feet above St. Mary. This made for some interesting landscape photo opportunities with the evergreens, yellow aspens, and snow line. But I wanted my wild life photos.
http://InitialPhotography.smugmug.com/photos/204205551-M.jpg
http://InitialPhotography.smugmug.com/photos/204202435-M.jpg
After passing up too many landscape opportunities in the hunt for wildlife, David_S85 took off on his own. Bender, Mike and I continued on and we saw mountain goats (too far off for any of my lenses), lots of bald eagles (again too far off), and this one very well photographed coyote...
http://InitialPhotography.smugmug.com/photos/204205962-M.jpg
The scenery was amazing, the wildlife was plentiful, but the highlight for me was just getting to meet and go out and shoot with so many other dgrinners!