I took a detour on my way back to Texas and drove through Glacier National Park.  The highlight of the visit was the Road-to-the-Sun, which is a road that is literally carved into the side of a mountain.  Not much room for traffic in both directions, which is reminiscent of some of narrow roads through the Alps.  Quite breathtaking.

The one thing that I realized was that mountains look spectacular in infrared, as the above image shows.  I’ve made it a point to start taking more mountain pictures in IR.  Also, I used the difficult lighting (due to fast-moving clouds) to test out a new HDR photography package.  Here is an example of what I was able to do:

 

Glacier NP is in northern Montana near the Canadian border.  Not really “in the neighborhood” but if you can make it up there you won’t regret it.

More pictures here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/captuslumen/sets/72157630369629970/