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Rocky Mountains Glacier #1

Small residual glacier in the Rocky Mountains viewed from the Alpine Visitor Centre in the Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, U.S.A.

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The story behind this image

One of the things Liz and I were hoping to see during our two week adventure in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park was a glacier.

However, visiting during late September, almost all the snow had melted, with just a few small glacier fragments remaining at high altitude.

This residual glacier was by the side of the Alpine Visitor Centre, up at 12,000 feet above sea level, and was the closest we got during our stay.

Even so, although there was only a very small part of the glacier left, the snow stood out very dramatically against the dark brown alpine tundra, and was well worth photographing.

A bit like a punctuation mark on the landscape.

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Image data

Filename - rocky mountains glacier 01.jpg

Camera - Canon EOS 6D

Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 32mm

Exposure - 1/60 sec @ f11, ISO100

Location - Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, U.S.A.

This image - 800x640px JPEG

Conversion - Adobe Lightroom

Comments - -1ev exposure compensation used to preserve highlights