100 days in Glacier National Park

A photographer's journey

100 days In Glacier National Park

This blog chronicles photos of Glacier National Park over 100 consecutive days, starting on May 1, 2009 by Glacier Park Magazine editor Chris Peterson. When the project is complete, it will be a traveling show in 2010 to commemorate Glacier's Centennial. I'm using a mix of film and digital cameras, including an 8 by 10 field camera, a Kodak Pocket Vest camera, circa 1909, and a Speed Graphic, among others. The idea is to use the cameras that would have been used over the course of the Park's 100 years. Day-to-day work is done primarily with a Nikon digital camera, since I only process film about once a week due to time constraints (I have a regular job on top of this project).

Day 80, Looking for goats, finding ducks

23/July/2009

On this journey I was also doing mountain goat surveys for the Park Service. At the first survey site I found no goats, but I did happen across a harlequin duck and her brood. It looked like a perfect place to be a duck. But not a human. The flies were awful. I grew up on a dairy farm and the barnyard, full of cows, had less flies. They didn't bite, they just crawled all over you. A note: On this trip I lugged the 400mm lens. It weighs an additional 15 pounds (with camera and monopod) but it's the ONLY way to get photos like this.