At the top of Glacier

I made the summit of Lincoln Peak after snowshoeing up from my high camp just before sunset on October 28th and was greeted with one of the most magnificent views I've ever seen. The photo dosen't do it justice. The vertical scale was almost overwhelming, even for myself who has spent much time in similar landscapes. Seven thousand feet from the deep valleys to the highest peaks, like Mount Jackson shown here above Ellen Wilson Lake and the 1500-foot series of falls below. It was cold and windy as I dug into the North face on a 40-degree slope, twenty feet from an overhanging 300-foot cliff. Good thing the snow was very solid on this day, allowing me to get close enough to the edge for an good perspective on the surrounding landscapes. Thanks for looking.

5D, 17-40 at 26mm, 2-stop soft GND, 1/2 sec. at F13, ISO 100.

Great colors, great capture. I grow cold just looking at his photo.

Marc, you continue to amaze me with your hiking adventures to capture these wonderful images. I typically go to GoogleEarth to check out the terrain and trails you had to traverse. This image for example required, I estimate, a hike of over six miles and 4000' elevation gain from the Going-to-the-Sun Road at Lake McDonald - through the snow! Thank you for at least identifying landmarks in your images enabling me to look them up in GoogleEarth. However I think you should give more details about the hike and extreme conditions you had to endure. Your fans I'm sure would appreciate the details.

This image captures the essence of a sight I may never see. Thank you for your fine work. My only nit might be wondering if a slight reduction in the blue cast of the snow would be appropriate.

Incredible Marc!!! What a sight to behold in person, I'm sure you earned this one, I can't imagine the effort it took to get here.

Marc,

We all have the equipment. Most of us can make interesting and above average images ( sometimes). Most of us can find our way around the basics, to communicate through photography our vision.

Few ( and I mean few) go the extra mile (s---literally) to attain the next dimension in photographing our world.

Living in the Bay area for many years, I got to know Galen pretty well. I know how you admire his desire to be different in going to the areas that most of us can't or are unable to get to. You are well on your way attaining the stature, at least to me that Galen held.

Go Marc.!!!!

JG

Unless you were wet and cold, I can imagine the hike being very enjoyable. The scenery is amazing! The photo is great, with the subject nicely lit. The only part of the photo I don't like is the bottom center gray area. There is not enough light and contrast to see the details there. Overall, though, this has a wow effect. Thanks for posting.

Mark,
You were well rewarded for your efforts. such a beautiful area up there.

Wow, what an incredible landscape and photo. I bet you could just sit there for a long, long time to take it in. Thanks for sharing!

Momo, yeah. I was torn whether to include that or not. I took images both ways. I eventually felt the image was stronger with the inclusion of the waterfalls below and I think it has more impact on print.
Craig, I didn't realize anyone would think to do that. Hopefully it helps your perspective on things. It was about 8 miles and 4800 vertical as I recall. Only the upper 3000 of it was in snow though. The lower trail is easy. The only tricky part was getting up the narrow, rocky ridge to the summit (100 vertical above here) with just boots (I wanted crampons) because the snowshoes were too cumbersome for the jagged rocks.

At first I couldn't figure out what that dark area was, Marc. Surely it's due to the compression. It's quite fantastic landscape.
If you were to walk out to those trees on the right, would you have been looking right down into that caldera?

I would have looked down at another ledge, then the caldera. The trees were perched on the edge of a 300 foot overhanging cliff, that drops to the ledge, then into the void below.