Glacier National Park Photos

[Veronica]

Great pics. A former member of my book group is a ranger in Glacier and she's never sent back pictures as nice as yours! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks! We take so many photos and really work at culling them down to have just the best on the web. For example we also saw a mama moose and her calf. It was at twilight and they were in a lake and eating. I didn't take any pictures of them at all. They were just too far away for my camera and it was too dark. Even with the extender on Thom's 400 mm (making it about a 620), his photos weren't great. The animals were fuzzy because it was such a long exposure and kind of looked like donkeys.

Great moments don't always make great photos. We watched them for twenty or thirty minutes. The calf kept going back onto shore and then would call for its mother. Eventually it would swim back out to her.

Our first day in Moab we had an awesome rain storm that produced a double rainbow over Castle Valley. Neither of us had our cameras as we were coming back from dinner. By the time we got to the room, the rainbows were disappearing. Those photos didn't make the cut either.

V.

[Starfish]

a mama moose and her calf. It was at twilight and they were in a lake and eating. I didn't take any pictures of them at all. They were just too far away

Sometimes being a little farther away from a moose is OK, especially with a baby! On a vacation a few years ago, camping in the backcountry, I got some very close-up photos of a moose because it came rather aggressively through camp!

V, your pics are amazing, and I'm just starting my new work, so I haven't been online much this week to read your stories, but I hope your trip is as amazing as your pics. Have fun!