Davev's shootout shots.

davev

Once again, Kate and I had a great time seeing everybody.
Here are a few of my shots. I hope to get to Kate's soon, but after being gone for this amount of time, I'm going to be busy for the next couple of days.

On with the pics.

Getting to Glacier late in the day, we went out exploring and found a full moon coming up over a ridge.


One of the first mornings, we went to get a sunrise shot of the range getting hit by the first light.


We also went on a couple of hikes looking for waterfalls.
Sometimes the falls were hard to see.


But after a while, folks got out of the way.






As most of you know, I shoot way more wildlife than I do landscapes, so here are a few
of the critters we found in and around Glacier.









These need a little bit of the story behind them.
A mountain goat fell/died and a female grizzly and her 2 cubs (that were almost full grown) found it, and were living the high life off of it.
A female black bear with her 2 cubs (small) came upon the scene without seeing the grizzly family right away.



The black bear family got out there in a hurry, and the grizzly family were pretty pleased with themselves.



That's all for now.
Thanks again to Smugmug and to all of the Smugmuggers that made this a very enjoyable trip.

Nikolai

Dave,
It was good seeing you again!
Nice shots!

jdmphoto

Wow, beautiful photgraphs. I know where the waterfalls are but where did you take the Grizzly photo's?

GREAPER

You are right, that Coyote does look familiar

Great stuff. I love your bear shots.

Andy

So great to see you guys again, too - and your photos are quite good

Love your whole photographic attitude, Dave

ehughes

Awesome Shot....

schmoo

Ah, now I get to see the Beargasm! With my longest lens being 200mm, they were just little brown dots on the hillside.

Thanks for lending me your 400 for the eagle that morning. I was looking at the file later and thinking it was still blurry, but maybe if I'd shot it in jpg it would have been clearer.

Great shots as always.

denisegoldberg

Beautiful...

I love the second coyote shot, really makes me wonder what he (she?) is looking at.

--- Denise

cwphotos

Awesome Dave. They look great. Great to see you again.

greenpea

Amazing shots Dave!

Dogdots

Shots to be proud of!

gluwater

Great, Dave posted. Now the rest of us can never post anything from the trip. It was great seeing you again Dave, hopefully I'll catch up with you this winter for some Eagles.

CalfeeRider

Great shots Dave!

Terrence

Your bear and coyote capures are to die for! Outstanding.

davev

Thanks everyone.

I'm going to get a few of Kate's shots up tonight after dinner.
A little home cooking sure tastes great after 2 1/2 weeks on the road.

Dogdots

I'm really interested in what lens you used to take your coyote pictures. Would you be happy to share that information with me? My second time looking at them and they are really good, clear, and sharp.

Ann McRae

Great shots, Dave. Nice black bear - where'd ya find him?

I told Nick, preshootout, that it wasn't a competition between him and you - all he needs to do is accept your superiority and move on.....

gluwater wrote:

Great, Dave posted. Now the rest of us can never post anything from the trip. It was great seeing you again Dave, hopefully I'll catch up with you this winter for some Eagles.

pathfinder

Great work.

I really like your wildlife captures. They are outstanding!

davev

Thanks again.

The lens for almost all of the wildlife shots was the Canon 400L f5.6 on a Canon 30D body.
The darn coyote got so close, he/she was inside the min. focal distance a couple of times.

Competition, Me and Nick? No way. He'll kick my butt every time.
The kid's way better than he thinks he is.

One more coyote shot.

gus

Love them all dave....cant wait to get home to process my bears. I had a bloody tree branch in front of mum dang nab it !

Your coyote is amazing !

Dogdots

Thank you for the info on the lens. I have the 70-300 lens, but the 400 is my dream . Well done!

digitalpins

Great photos, number three is cool with all the photographers in different spots on the rocks. Also that first wolf photo is awesome.

Again all great photos

Fred W

Hi Dave. How the heck did you get such great shots of those grizzly bears? Super job !!!!!

davev

Fred W wrote:

Hi Dave. How the heck did you get such great shots of those grizzly bears? Super job !!!!!

Just good clean living I guess.

grimace

davev wrote:

Just good clean living I guess.

My ribs are still hurting from this comment.

davev

I'm bring this back to the top for one reason, I found my last 12 shots from the shoot out.

Digital Gopher told us of a road about 4-5 miles from the park to take a pano.



The larger (not full) version is here: Link

Ann McRae

Hi Dave - love that prairie/foothills stuff. I loved driving along Duck Lake Rd , and the backroad from East Glacier, and as I've mentioned love the Alberta foothills. Great pano.

ann

Dogdots

Nice beautiful pano

Bilsen

Every darn one in this set is a hanger. I am sooo jealous.

Phyxius

Dave, awesome shot(s)! And, three words.

Big Sky Country!!

schmoo

Dave, what an amazing view!! I'm glad you captured it in a mega-pano because it gives a fighting chance of making us feel like we're actually there.