Love of mountain goats drives Glacier Park photographer Sumio Harada
Photographer Sumio Harada has been taking unique and captivating wildlife photos for more than 30 years, with most of that time spent in Glacier National Park. (photo provided)
Harada said this photo has the most goats he's every captured in one frame, some 40 of them hanging out at Goat Lick in Glacier National Park. (courtesy of Sumio Harada)
Mountain goats are by far Harada's favorite subject, dedicating his career to capturing images of them, particularly in the winter time. (courtesy of Sumio Harada)
Harada's daughter and his wife Kumi hangout in their tent, braving the cold while Harada shot wildlife photography in Many Glacier. (courtesy of Sumio Harada)
Harada captures a photo of a mountain lion devouring what's left of a mountain goat. (courtesy of Sumio Harada)
When the summer crowds of Glacier National Park disperse and snow starts to blanket the peaks, wildlife photographer Sumio Harada reliably treks into the mountains to capture spectacular images of the resident mountain goats.
It’s an animal he has been passionate about his entire career. Harada will share a look back at his career as a wildlife photographer during an upcoming presentation at Flathead Valley Community College. The presentation presented by the Glacier National Park Volunteer Associates will feature behind-the-scenes footage of the “challenges and rewards of wildlife photography.”
Born and raised in Japan, Harada studied Japanese serow as a college student, taking photos that highlighted the many different fur patterns on their faces. Serows are a close cousin of the American mountain goat, which he learned more about in a book called “Never Cry Wolf” by Canadian biologist Farley Mowat, which ultimately influenced him to go study the animals in the Canadian Rockies.
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