Glacier National Park

Glacier National Park has been called the crown jewel of our national park system. Its rugged alpine scenery, raging rivers, colorful rock formations, and lush vegetation make it truly awe inspiring and an extremely diverse photography location. Our base in Saint Mary’s, on the east side of the “Going to the Sun” highway, gives us easy access to both lower and upper elevation lake, stream, forest, and prairie locations as well as the incredible, sweeping alpine vistas at the base of some of Glacier’s highest peaks.

Late September is a great time to visit as park visitation is low and the scenery is stunning at this time. The contrast of fall colors with crisp, blue skies and red rock is not something that you will forget. Colorful leaves swirling around in pools at the base of distant falls beckon the nature photographer and the wide open vistas on the east side of the park are iconic and one of a kind.

We will start at some lower elevation locales by visiting Lake Saint Mary, which makes for a great reflection of the high peaks that form its backdrop. We will then proceed to the famous Many Glacier area, visiting Swiftcurrent Lake, and Red Rock Falls, where water flowing through a spectacular series of cascades will form the framework for many of our compositions.

Delving deeper into the park, we will photograph at several locations alongside and near Two Medicine Lake. Weather permitting, we will make our way to Logan Pass where we will photograph high alpine peaks, small waterfalls flowing though alpine tundra, and the colorful tundra plants that carpet much of the alpine zone. With a little luck, we will observe and photograph the playful antics of the resident mountain goats and very possibly elk and black bear.