Glacier and Yellowstone national park dump thread

iamsneaky13 · Jul 31, 2011

Mark w- this was a family vacation so with me, my parents and my sister so i really couldnt go it alone. The first week of the vacation we were in glacier at a really nice house on lake mcdonald and we drove to different areas of the park to do hikes everyday. Then in yellowstone my grandparents flew up for a week and we drove there from glacier.(about a seven hour drive) In yellowstone we had a really nice hotel in west yellowstone, and again drove everywhere. At the end of the vacation we had put about 2500 miles on our rental car. I would have liked to do this vacation another way like backpacking or something, but that wasn't an option for me. Im still in highschool...

Markmako-honestly its not me or the gear its the scene. The best advice for reflections is include something in the water in the forground like the rocks that i included. It gives a sense of scale to the water. also get there early morning when the air is more still and the water less choppy. I handheld all the reflection shots but a tripod is nice to have

Markw · Jul 31, 2011

Gotcha. For some reason, it didn't occur to me that such a place had accessible roads to these kinds of scenes. I guess that's because of me never making it away from the Baltimore->New York city-type scene. :lol:

. Well that sounds great. I'm envious, for sure. About being in high school, I know the feeling. I'm entering college this coming fall :wink:

. This is the first time anyone has gotten any inclination about my age on here (hopefully its a shocker! :megreen: )

Mark

iamsneaky13 · Aug 1, 2011

Mark w- i had no idea about your age, but have fun at college! I was a little surprised about the roads as well. The Going-to-the-sun road at glacier was on the edge of a cliff among the mountains. later in the week i plan to post a timelapse on youtube of the drive but im on another vacation now so i cant do it lol.
any ways heres todays shot. I took a hundred or so of the sunset, so here is one of the same seen as my first post, but it is at 300mm of the distant mountains.

iamsneaky13 · Aug 3, 2011

my thing of the day is the going to the sun timelapse. it is about 4100 shots but it really doesn't show how awesome the road really is. the elevation at the highest point is near 7000 feet, and most of the time you are driving next to a cliff with a pitiful guardrail. we saw about ten goats three bighorn sheep and one grizzley bear during that drive alone. the only animals you can see on the video are the goats however.

Arkanjel Imaging · Aug 3, 2011

Sneaky that night shot is... well, stellar.

iamsneaky13 · Aug 3, 2011

lol i see what you did there!

iamsneaky13 · Aug 6, 2011

ok here are two from my grinnel hike, the last two from that hike that im gonna post, and one star trail shot.

iamsneaky13 · Aug 18, 2011

well it has been awhile since my last post. i went to maryland came back, then got sick, and now i have some computer issues that i am still trying to resolve.

i need an opinion on this one. i made it a lot darker and such, but i think it might be too dark so id like an opinion there