Glacier National Park, 2012

Landscape and Nature Photography from Glacier National Park, taken in August 2012.

Even when it surrounds you with awe-inspiring vistas, nature can still sneak up on you with an intricate detail. A few minutes after the sun emerged from behind a fast-moving rain shower, I found this droplet of water sparkling on this seed pod. What a remarkable jewel -- it lasted only a minute or two before being evaporated by the July sun, but I'm glad I captured it.

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Even when it surrounds you with awe-inspiring vistas, nature can still sneak up on you with an intricate detail. A few minutes after the sun emerged from behind a fast-moving rain shower, I found this droplet of water sparkling on this seed pod. What a remarkable jewel -- it lasted only a minute or two before being evaporated by the July sun, but I'm glad I captured it.

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$Streambed near Swiftcurrent Lake (Fluid Refraction). <br /> <br /> A woodland stream under dappled sunlight stopped me in my tracks, and inspired me to sit for a while and contemplate the quicksilver patterns of reflected and refracted light dancing over the colorful stones of the alluvial stream-bed. I was fascinated at how many things were at work in that little patch of sunlight -- optics, geology, hydrodynamics, thermodynamics. I couldn't help but be humbled at the complexity of our universe being displayed with such elegant beauty.$

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