This is a late afternoon summer image of Glacier National Park and St. Mary Lake. I lensed this as the sun was low on the horizon in the west behind me as I flew southbound high above the Rocky Mountain Range. Directly below me are Heavy Runner Mountain and Citadel Mountain which are both casting long shadows in the lower the foreground of the image.
In the middle of the image is Saint Mary Lake and at the bottom of the lake you can barely make out Saint Mary River where it joins Virginia Creek to flow into the lake. Following the lake vertically up the image you can clearly see the Narrows where Silver Dollar Beach is opposite of the Golden Stairs.
On the left side of the image are the rugged jagged cliffs of Going-To-The-Sun Mountain in the foreground and Goat Mountain behind it. On the right side of the image in the immediate foreground are the raw cliffs of Little Chief Mountain and up the image a bit behind the shadows lay Mahtotopa Mountain and Red Eagle Mountain.
This is the ancient ancestral homelands of the First Nations Blackfeet Tribes, their huge Nations Reservation (Blackfeet Indian Reservation) lies on the other side of Saint Mary Lake in this image as far as you can see.
Archaeological evidence of First Nations occupation dates back more than 10,000 years inside the boundaries of Glacier National Park. Numerous First Nations Tribes lived in the area around and within what is now the park. They hunted, fished, held sacred ceremonies, and gathered plants for food and sacred medicine.
Explorations to the area by trappers as early as the 1700’s opened the area, and the future Glacier National Park, to trading among European settlers and local long time tribal communities.
Today, the Blackfeet Indian Reservation covers 1.5-million acres, and shares Glacier Mountain National Park’s eastern border. It is home to around 8,600 members of the Blackfeet Nation, the largest ancestral tribe in Montana.
Further south the First Nations Flathead Reservation covers almost 1.3 million acres primarily along the meandering Flathead River and has approximately 7,000 tribal members of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation.
Going-To-The-Sun Mountain was named as such during the winter of 1887-1888 by James Willard Schultz, an early hunting guide in the St. Mary Lakes region. While hunting on Red Eagle Mountain with his Pikuni friend, Tail-Feathers-Coming-Over-the-Hill, Schultz gave this mountain the name it bears today.
The First Nations Blackfeet name for the mountain is “The-Face-of-Sour-Spirit-Who-Went-Back-to-The-Sun-After-His-Work-Was-Done Mountain”, in explanation of the snowfields on the mountainside which, as viewed from the west, make the outline of a face.
This is from my project "Where Eagles Fly - The American Wilderness Expedition".
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Nicely done! I'm very impressed with the way you've drawn @skypilot
Thanks, glad you like it! It is an aerial wilderness photograph I lensed while flying about the Rocky Mountains in Montana.
Why there is this blueish tint in all of your photos @skypilot
The color spectrum average of each image is going to be dependent on a number of factors beginning with the initial capture: time of day / Alpenglow effect if present / polarization filter position / color filter on camera when shot etc. That along with the depth of the sensor pixel wells and the corresponding Bayer Layer sitting atop each pixel.... then add on that the fact that each individual sees the over all color spectrum slightly different - i.e. what you see as primarily bluish, others may see as green/blue or pink/blue or a litany of combinations thereof. There are so many factors to consider.... and then on top of it all... I personally am attracted to blue tint scenes in nature to begin with... I seek them out. Hope you don't mind.
LOVELY photos. Are these really yours?
Thank you, glad you like them and yes these are all my aerial wilderness photography from my project "Where Eagles Fly" here is a link to a short film about my work if you are interested:
Great video!!! Talking of Eagles, I had one yesterday 12'oclock 100 feet in front of me same altitude, shortest path I dove, we saw his eyes, about 25 ' over right wings 😅
LOL! one of my constant concerns is a deaf Eagle or Vulture......
Will you be my father? :D You have better voice than Gandalf.
LOL !!!!! awesome... very kind of you to say!
I set up automatic vote for every new post you make :) Pls continue making these awesome shots.
Breathtaking, that's some dramatic scenery.
Glad you enjoy it.... Glacier National Park and all of the area south of there through the Bob Marshall Wilderness and the Great Bear Wilderness along the FlatHead Mountains are all amazing wilderness places. Let us hope they remain as such!
It's incredible, so much space. And yes, lets hope it remains untamed.
Alway's great picture with great story!!! I Really love it!!!
That is my goal, to provide an alternative that is positive, informative and fun to review.
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Really beautiful pic😊 love the color
Thx for sharing.
I am pleased you like it! You should have seen it from up there! Pretty amazing place.
Yes I can imagine :0) like magic...lol
Truly amazing. My favorit for sure. Thx
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Very nice!
How beautiful is this? You have really captured great color in this shot. I like being able to go places I will not ever go through blogs like yours. This is really cool, for real.
Thank you so much... and you have hit the nail squarely on the head! The main purpose of doing this is that I am trying to bring awareness to these beautiful wilderness spaces to a world that increasingly lives their lives vicariously virtually. I am very happy you enjoy it and please if you are so inclined, help spread the word of what I am doing. I love sharing these experiences with others not able to go themselves!
Awesome! I used to tour guide in Glacier National Park, Yellowstone, and the Tetons. I know how beautiful Going to the Sun Highway is. Thanks!
Right!? That place is truly amazing, you must of had a wonderful time showing people the beauty of nature!
It was a pretty fun gig, searching wolves, bears etc (from a distance of course).
Beautiful image @skypilot. And I appreciate the history lesson :) I really enjoyed reading about the First Nation tribes in the area. Upvote!
Awesome! Glad you enjoyed it.... I love to research these hidden places with forgotten history... there is so much that we will never know, so it is refreshing to try and understand things as they were before!
Definitely, it cannot be overstated how important it is to keep this kind of history alive.
Nice skypilot. Thanks for sharing.