For my most recent photographic work, check out my galleries of images from Glacier National Park in Montana.
I am about three months behind in my planning to write a book. First it was stained glass that I was working on, and which took longer than I expected, and then we were off to Glacier.
I didn’t know what to expect. We had been to Switzerland the summer before. The Swiss boasted that, in the Jungfrau region, the “relief” — the distance from the base of the mountains to the top — was actually greater than that of many mountains that were actually taller, that is, further above sea level. Seeing the Montana mountains, I have to agree. The Swiss Eiger, Monch, Jungfrau, and Schreckhorn mountains, for example, seemed to jut up from the valley floor and tower over it, in a way that the Montana mountains did not. Still, some of the Glacier valley shots I took were very impressive: these mountains are big — wide and tall — and the valleys deep, ground out by a two-mile-deep glacier millennia ago. My images taken from the terrifying Highline Trail show one of these valleys.
I think I’ll have to look at Colorado, and maybe Washington, to see if I can find mountains that are sharper, more angular. (Mountains inspire some of my stained glass work.) Still, I took a lot of shots of Montana mountains, of cliff sides, of rocks and boulders (see Avalanche Lake Trail, for example) that were very pleasing. I also shot rivers, cascades, waterfalls, lakes, and dark forest trails. I hope you are as pleased by the results as I was. Here’s a link.
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