Mountain castles

Shot taken from the Iceberg Lake trail.

Hidden Lake Trail.

Late afternoon, a short walk from the Logan Pass Visitor Center. The place should look absolutely incredible in cloudy/foggy weather.

Late summer at Grinnell glacier

It is amazing how much the glacier has actually receded. Compare this picture with those on the link above.

Pyramids and other shapes

The slightly different version of the first shot is posted on my photosight.ru page.


The second shot is taken from about the same place but turning 90 deg to the left.

Partly sunny.

Iceberg Lake trail in Glacier National Park, Montana.

Grand Tetons. Hazy morning.

The haze was so abundant that it essentially ruined the original shot despite the use of both UV and circular polarizer filters. In B/W however, it's all but gone.

Partly cloudy. Early morning near Bowman Lake.

These shots are from the road approaching Bowman Lake campground in Northwestern part of the Glacier NP. Absolutely amazing place!

Windy summer afternoon

These two shots were taken at Swiftcurrent pass, late afternoon, August, 25. The truth is, most of the snow has already melted by the time we climbed up there.

Glacier remains at Iceberg Lake

Montana, Glacier National Park. The water color is natural and is caused by microscopic particles of rock carried by water from the glaciers.

Fall colors in NJ

Mid-November, Watchung reservation. Not quite Vermont or Adirondack foliage but still...

Iceberg Lake trail

Late afternoon, on the way back from Iceberg Lake.

Yet another photo from Glacier.

This time it is from the trail to Hidden Lake. Very short, easy, and crowded hike from the Logan Pass visitor center.

Mountain Lake

This is a small lake close to Iceberg Lake. The processing included RAW conversion, levels, curves, and edges mask based sharpening. I was initially going to post this one on photosight.ru but it just doesn't get compressed very well.

Very useful piece of Javascript.

I came across this nice bit of code and decided I'd give it a try on my page. Being a complete novice in Web coding I expect it will take some time till I make it work like it should. The idea is to get the full size picture opened on top of the current page rather than having to go back and forth in browser to view the image.

HAPPY 2006! And Merry Christmas to my Russian Orthodox friends.

Anyway, still no winter up here in NYC area. The weather sucks, but it's warming to look at the pictures taken in Montana over the summer and realize how spectacular the sunrise can be at St. Mary Lake: