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Sunrise in Glacier National Park Sunrise at Saint Mary Lake in Glacier National Park, Montana. #Montana   #GlacierNationalPark   #landscapephotography   www.MyPhotoGuides.com

Almost My Last Photo I'm really lucky that it was not my last image.  The small viewpoint was full with a photography workshop, so I asked if I could take this quick shot in front of them, then head down the hill to a different spot.  I ran to get out of their view quickly, startling a huge male grizzly bear away from the service berry bush he had been feeding on.  Two things you never do to a grizzly are startle them or give them the impression that you're challenging them for their food!  I saw his massive dark form and heard him crashing off through the brush about 50-70 yards.  I froze.  I figured that I should let the bear know that I was a human, not a bear, so i called back to the photographers above that if I started screaming, I was getting mauled by a grizzly bear.  Later I learned that bears can interpret yelling as an aggressive act, as a challenge. I heard nothing, not a leaf rustling or a stick cracking, until the bear's head popped up from behind the bush, wh...