Montana Highways & Glacier National Park

This is a home video edited with iMovie shot on my Android phone along the Montana highway adjacent to Glacier National Park in 2012. I used stills I shot in the national park, and stock music. I shot and edited this just for fun.

There's no substitute for experience

I friended a neighbor on Facebook who I haven't been in touch with since high school. The following is my bio in a nutshell that I sent him in order to catch up:

So,

I think we last saw each other in high school, so here’s a short history: I went to Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and stayed an extra year because I couldn’t decide on a minor. I graduated with a B.S. in Radio-Television Broadcasting.
I got a cameraman job at WCIU-TV where I worked with Don Cornelius and Janet Langhart. Then I moved to Peoria where I wrote commercials and directed the news. I volunteered for community theater and smoked a lot of pot and dropped a little acid.
I convinced my draft board that I was an conscientious objector (which I was) and went to work at Evanston Hospital as a unarmed security guard. I was there for three years, but I only needed to stay for two. I worked graveyard shift, and during the evening I produced a show on channel 44 called Underground. Most people who worked on the show were volunteers, and I made a few bucks on the side. We did shows with Joan Baez, Jane Fonda, Neil Sedaka and Peter Yarrow, but ultimately it bombed. I then worked at WMAQ-TV as a news cameraman for a summer and returned to WSNS-TV the next summer to be a White Sox Baseball cameraman.
I moved to Albuquerque, NM to be the chief photographer at the CBS affiliate before I crossed the street to work at the NBC affiliate because they had better gear. I met and married Claudia, my wife of thirty-four years in Albuquerque.
I got a job at the CNN San Francisco Bureau when it first went live, and covered the 1984 Democratic Convention for them. I then went freelance and worked around San Francisco local TV news operations.
We moved to Los Angeles for Claudia’s job, and I worked freelance for the local TV news where I won an Emmy. I then worked freelance for CBS and ABC network news where I covered the OJ Simpson slow speed chase, and the Northridge Earthquake. I edited tapes at CBS during the Rodney King Riots and shot the empty beaches for ABC News. I also worked for shows like Hard Copy and Entertainment Tonight.
My last TV job was the eve of the Y2k millennium which I shot from a three story platform on the roof of a local TV station. I then went to work as a Democratic Party political consultant for a couple years. I was elected to the Los Angeles County Democratic Party Committee and the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council.
In 2003, I left politics to work for the Federal Government at the Transportation Security Administration at LAX. I retired as a supervisor last December and living on my retirement. I hope to get side jobs working with my digital camera..

So that’s it in a nutshell.

Garry

A Tale of Two Cities:

Buckingham Fountain in Chicago's Grant Park about 1970 (above), and...

Cloud Gate in Chicago's Millennium Park (right) about forty years later.

Photos by Garry Willis