Enjoy some of my favorites from a June 5th trip to Yellowstone National Park!
The first shot is a unique angle of the Firehole River in the Upper Geyser Basin, showing tourist walking across the boardwalk above. Processing this image as black and white really makes this look like some other planet!
A bright blue colored pool in the area of the Midway Geyser Basin.
If you know a little about Yellowstone, there’s no mistaking this as the famous Grand Prismatic Spring. This was photographed from a trail that runs along the mountain behind the spring. You can see the boardwalk where most tourists see the enormous spring from a low angle, doing no justice the the actual size and colors!
Here’s another of Grand Prismatic Spring, this time from the boardwalk, showing the mountain from where the last shot was taken. The saturated colors of the inner and outer areas of the hot spring reflect on to the steam with bright blue and orange, respectively. Look closely and you’ll see the ripples of the water being expelled by the spring, eventually reaching the river. 560 gallons of hot water is put out every minute!
Another perspective of Grand Prismatic, showing the scale of the plumes of steam next the crowds on the boardwalk.
By far the most heart dropping sight I’ve ever seen, this is the view from the “Brink of the Lower Falls” on the Yellowstone River. Besides the thermal features, this view IS Yellowstone National Park. The bright volcanic rock walls of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, the mighty Yellowstone River, the mounds of snow still left over in June, and just the naturally raw quality of all of it together. This is quite the trek down the side of the canyon to a viewing platform above the falls, and this trail has taken lives. People just do not understand the dangers here, and treat it more like an amusement park than a national park. Another visitor was killed earlier this year on the mountain trail above Grand Prismatic Spring shown earlier in this post, from a falling tree.
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