Glacier National Park, 2012

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

St. Mary Falls, Glacier National Park. <br />
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Many of streams in Glacier contain glacial silt -- fine particles that cause the pale greenish-blue color that many folks find so pleasing, and that gives definition and contrast to the millions of tiny bubbles in this shot. Looking down into the water that day, I couldn't help but be amazed at the complexity of water and air mixing together, swirling like miniature galaxies.

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St. Mary Falls, Glacier National Park.

Many of streams in Glacier contain glacial silt -- fine particles that cause the pale greenish-blue color that many folks find so pleasing, and that gives definition and contrast to the millions of tiny bubbles in this shot. Looking down into the water that day, I couldn't help but be amazed at the complexity of water and air mixing together, swirling like miniature galaxies.

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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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