Yellowstone, one of America’s most well know parks is well traveled by all types of people from around the world. One of the most famous monuments being the Old Faithful Geyser. I really didn’t know what to expect when planning my stay here, but I knew I had to go due to its status. Well I was pretty disappointed due to the park’s size seemingly compensating for the raw beauty of the park, but was overall satisfied with the park’s unique aspect. Here are some people waiting to see Old Faithful finally erupt into a fifteen foot shower of water.
And Old Faithful in action.
One of the many hot springs. It is gorgeous to see these springs with orange rings and deep blue water, but unfortunately the most famous, upper geyser basin was closed. But here is the middle level basin to illustrated the blues i mentioned before.
And the unsteady land creates unique textures, I tried to get some of the setting sun to reflect.
This second photo does a better job of it. The middle geyser basin also hosts one of the largest pools that show the gorgeous color patterns described above. Too bad you need to be in a helicopter to actually see the beauty of the pool.
This the orange color mentioned above, which is produced by thermophile bacteria thriving in extreme heat.
An actual pool with all its colors found at the firehole lake.
Boiling waters of the hot springs.
Pardon me for forgetting the name of this geyser, but it was also an interesting site.
Up at Mammoth hot springs there are many other interesting textures to explore, all created by the bacteria growing within and around the springs.
One of the last thriving hot springs within Mammoth.
And its nice textural growth.
Tower falls.
Yosemite upper falls.
Lower falls.
And the canyon below.
Water is soft in normal temperture you can not hold it with you hand and hit anyone. But water can bring the tree to life, can keep the grass green but also can move the soil, can cutting into the stone, How long it took to create canyon. How much soil been moved by water.
It is a beautiful NATURE.
Great photos Matt, seems like we have some similar taste in photography.
Nature is beautiful. How could such a delicate and beautiful thing be constructed on it’s own. I think we can still learn from the engineering of natural design.
I’ve been checking out your road trip, fantastic. Erin and I hit a few of the same places on our trip back to the east coast. I really like the motion in the trees of your Tower Falls shot. I was a bit disappointed with Old Faithful, not as majestic as it was built up to be, but the park overall was pretty incredible. Here’s some our shots if you want to check them out: http://picasaweb.google.com/mjregan00/Yellowstone#