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Dave,West Glacier, Montana:
Sunset at Bowman Lake. What a crazy road! 90hrsw, 2-image stitch:
Dave
Dave,
Great images of Glacier National Park. Unfortunately I haven't been there in years, but back in 1978, I manned the Numa Ridge Lookout for the summer. In your Bowman Lake image, which is a stunner, Numa Ridge is the sparsely treed "peak" in front of the snow covered Kintla Peak on the left side. Got a ride up initially in a helicopter that landed on a small makeshift pad. Almost a six mile hike back down on my days off. Food and water brought up by wranglers and pack mules - horses every two or three weeks. There was an old crank telephone that was connected by a thick wire cable to the Bowman Ranger Station, Polebridge I think, as well as a couple other locations. We had different rings such as two long, two short. Got a call every morning on the main radio. I needed to watch for smoke and stay up during storms at night and watch for flare-ups. That was a wet summer and no fires occurred although I did have several direct hit lightning strikes on the heavily grounded building. Had a propane refrigerator, stove, heater, and cot. Everything I needed. Bear boards (large nails driven through boards that are suppose to deter bears) went up at night on the stairs to the two story building. Before venturing to the outhouse, I always scoped the area and did inventory of the local bears. There were three spread out in the bowl behind the lookout during the weeks of berry season. This was the summer that led to my life long journey of photography. I had gotten my first 35mm camera and I read voraciously many books on the subject. I have been hooked ever since.
Oh yea. Crashed my Camaro Z-28 and about totaled it on that crazy road. That was in my stupid period and alcohol was involved.
Thanks Dave for the wonderful photos and for spurring my memories of Glacier.
Rick
Hi,mag cover and exhibition posters for a watch launch.
Dave,Rick,
Thanks for the comments and for sharing your background there; sounds like the experience of a lifetime! I think pepper spray is a step up from the bear boards, at least when the wind is blowing the right way. This year was a good berry season, but last year was bad. Given they are 30% of the bear's diet, they came down to steal apples from peoples yards last year.
I haven't been to Glacier since I was a little kid; for whatever reason I've concentrated on Wyoming vacations. But I came away deciding I want to spend two months there some year. All of September on the East side for the aspens, and all of October on the West for the larch.
The worst part of the road now is just past Polebridge. For those of you who have been to The Racetrack it is kind of like that, but add several thousand potholes; you have to go so slow there is not much chance for the washboards to ever be a problem. Well, unless you are in a Z-28 late at night...
Here's one from a few minutes earlier with some more cloud drama around your peaks.
Ciao,
Dave
Perfect!Patek Philippe 5089G-024
Capcam, IQ3 100, Schneider 120mm
Gerald.
Thanks Jeffery for your kind words.Perfect!
I'm sure the watch company loves you. Curious to know how long it takes from capturing the watch on set to outputting the image to the client's specs?
thanks for sharing,
Jeffery
Patek Philippe 5089G-024
Capcam, IQ3 100, Schneider 120mm
Kind regards,
Gerald.
Thank you so much for your kind words.A stunning image .:thumbs: Absolutely .
But , there is a "but" .
Gerald , how do you keep dirt and dust away from the object ? ? ?