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The boardwalk winds by a hot pool in Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park.
View large - 'Norris Geyser Basin' On Black
View the entire Yellowstone and Tetons - Sept 2007 Set
View my - Most Interesting according to Flickr
Bernie D suggested a Monument Basin shot in B&W. I'm not sure this is what he meant because that other shot was more uniform. This came out more "busy" than I normally like in an image, but just because I like my photo stream to be a little mixed up, I'm posting for a change.
The Basin.
Located in Kentlyn is the 76 hectare Keith Longhurst Reserve.
A bush reserve previously known as the Basin Reserve it offers stunning scenic views and has numerous walking tracks which lead to the Georges River.
The Basin Walking Trail will take you on a 2 kilometre round trek to the river where you can view the beautiful waterfall.
Kentlyn, New South Wales, Australia.
A single Columbia Basin SD9 takes 4 loads of agricultural products around the wye to drop them at the Wilbur Ellis, Sieler Siding near Moses Lake. The SD carried the same number on the DM&IR. It was part of a 3 unit, 2 crew set that made the Warden Wheeler turn. One crew took the single SD to deliver cars to customers around Moses Lake while the other 2 were used to swith larger customers in Wheeler.
The Midway Geyser Basin was thick with mist when we visited one early morning at Yellowstone. I liked the lines and textures of the bacteria that thrive in this unreal super-heated geyser basin. Lots of lens cleaning that day 😁
On our way back from exploring today, we took a four-wheel drive through Yankee Basin outside of Ouray. It was another great drive with amazing views all along the way. There is a stream next to the road that also gave us some nice waterfall opportunities. We read online before we came on the trip that July is the best month to see wildflowers in the mountains. Boy were they right. The mountains were full of colorful flowers on every trail we went on during this trip. There are so many areas to explore around Silverton and Ouray. I can't wait until my next trip back.
An eastbound Deseret Power Railway unit coal train rumbles through the curve at milepost 24 in colorful and remote Coyote Basin, Utah, on October 20, 2015.
Badwater Basin is the lowest point in North America at 86m below sea level. The site itself consists of a small spring-fed pool of "bad water" next to the road in a sink; the accumulated salts of the surrounding basin make it undrinkable, thus giving it the name. Adjacent to the pool, where water is not always present at the surface, repeated freeze–thaw and evaporation cycles gradually push the thin salt crust into hexagonal honeycomb shapes.
The setting sun's golden light highlight the unique shapes and formations found across the expanse of Cottonball Basin of Death Valley in California.
Late summer early light dawns over Blue Lake and the ragged peaks surrounding the Sabrina Basin. A bit windy on this morning, eliminating any chance of a great sunrise reflection in the lake. The view is hard to top in the Sierra, no matter the conditions.
John Muir Wilderness. Kings Canyon NP boundary at the peak tops.
This is the entire basin.
Something is wrong in this image and I know it can be corrected but I just don't have the Photoshop in my computer. So I just leave it as it is. If you can spot it, please write it in the comment section. :)
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Franciona Notch State Park, NH
The salt flats in Badwater Basin in Death Valley are quite amazing. The basin covers over 200 square miles, and its lowest point is 282 feet below sea level. Sediment dropped by the wind mixes with the salt and is eroded by the wind. It is interesting that in some locations in the basin the sediment is scarcely visible and in other spots it is prominent.
Red Gulch Road crosses Red Basin southwest of Shell Wyoming in the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains. This photo was taken along the Red Gulch/Alkali National Backcountry Byway in Bighorn County.
The Norris Geyser Basin is the hottest geyser basin in the park and is located near the northwest edge of Yellowstone Caldera near Norris Junction and on the intersection of three major faults. The Norris-Mammoth Corridor is a fault that runs from Norris north through Mammoth to the Gardiner, Montana, area. The Hebgen Lake fault runs from northwest of West Yellowstone, Montana, to Norris. This fault experienced an earthquake in 1959 that measured 7.4 on the Richter scale (sources vary on exact magnitude between 7.1 and 7.8; see 1959 Yellowstone earthquake). Norris Geyser Basin is so hot and dynamic because these two faults intersect with the ring fracture zone that resulted from the creation of the Yellowstone Caldera of 640,000 years ago.
This shot was taken from Governor Basin looking down to the road in the distance that goes up to Yankee Boy Basin. Roads to both basins (over 11,000 feet) were constructed by mining companies, though today they are used more frequently to access camping sites, hiking trails, meadows of wildflowers and spectacular scenery. The two peaks (from l to r) are Teakettle Mountain (13,819) and Potosi Peak (13, 786).
Légère inondation du Tidal Basin du National Mall, Washington DC, la capitale des USA.
Une vue à partir de la rive ouest du bassin près du Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial.
Au loin, on remarque le Thomas Jefferson Memorial au milieu des cerisiers Yoshino en fleurs sur la rive sud du Tidal Basin du National Mall. Situé à l'extrémité sud du bassin et de la 15th Street SW, ce monument qui ressemble à un temple, avec sa rotonde ouverte entourée de colonnes ioniques et surmonté d'un dôme, offre l'une des images les plus célèbres de Washington. Ces colonnes protègent une statue de Jefferson (1743-1826), le 3e président américain haute de 6 m entouré par des passages gravés de la Déclaration d'Indépendance. Construit en 1934, le style du bâtiment rend hommage à la demeure de Jefferson, architecte de profusion, située en Virginie.
Le Tidal Basin est un bassin artificiel d'eau douce qui a été créé à la fin du 19e siècle, entre le fleuve Potomac et le Washington Channel. L'été, on peut le parcourir en pédalo. Au printemps, de la fin mars au début avril, dans le cadre du National Cherry Blossom Festival, on y profite de la floraison des cerisiers Yoshino en fleurs qui furent offert aux USA par le Japon en 1912. L’édition de 2023 avait été programmé du 20 mars au 16 avril. Il s'agit d'un hommage annuel à l'amitié de longue date entre le Japon et les États-Unis. En effet, plus de 3 000 arbres sont arrivés à Washington en 1912 après une coordination entre les gouvernements des deux pays. Lors d'une cérémonie simple le 27 mars 1912, la première dame Helen Herron Taft et la vicomtesse Chinda, épouse de l'ambassadeur du Japon, ont planté les deux premiers arbres du Japon sur la rive nord du Tidal Bassin dans le West Potomac Park.
Le National Mall est une grande esplanade verte, un parc ouvert au public du centre-ville de Washington, D.C qui fait office de rue principale et de square municipal. Il s'étend du Lincoln Memorial jusqu'au Capitole des États-Unis et marque la limite entre deux des quatre quadrants partageant la ville : Northwest (NW) et Southwest (SW). On y inclut communément les zones qui font officiellement partie du West Potomac Park et les Constitution Gardens à l'ouest. Son plan est originellement dessiné par Pierre Charles L'Enfant mais celui-ci ayant été remercié de ses services avant même la construction de la ville, il fallut attendre plus de 110 ans avant que le projet ne soit réalisé par le National Park Service qui l'adopta.
Le Mall et ses pelouses forment l'un des lieux touristiques les plus connus de la ville et est souvent utilisé pour les manifestations en raison de sa signification civique et historique. Aujourd'hui cette grande allée de 3.5 km de long est bordée par de nombreux musées dont ceux de la Smithsonian Institution, monuments et mémoriaux.
For this trip we passed through Yellowstone twice staying there overnight each time. The park is so big that each time we get to go back try to stay in the various different 'quadrants' so we can see more of it each time.
Here using the CPL filter the colors and details there in the basin area were lovely there under the cloudy skies.
Considering the forecast was for clear sunny day, the clouds near sunset was an added bonus.
The patterns and colors there in the minerals are fun to compose around ... I think ;)
A new chapter in Big Basin's story began on August 18, 2020, when the CZU Lightning Complex Fire swept through 97% of the park's property. The fire destroyed all historic structures and radically changed the landscape. The park now looks very different from how generations of visitors experienced it, but it is steadily recovering. Most of the old-growth redwood trees survived, new plant life is vigorously growing, and many animals have returned to the area.
This is Little Sand Coulee Road headed to the southwest. Across the dry country Jim Bridger lead several wagon trains in to Montana Territory. It avoided the Bozeman Trail, but had considerably less water. The distant mountains are the Beartooths.
I wish that I could tell you what peak this baby is, could be a part of Burroughs, I just don't know for sure, but it waits for you to exit the forest at the end of the Glacier Basin Trail and it's magnificent. There is a pack in campground here that folks who are going to summit Rainier set up camp at. The next day they will climb to Sherman and try and get some sleep, get up at 1 or 2 and climb to be at the summit at dawn and then back down here to revel in the experience. I saw several exuberant and exhausted hikers coming down. Hat's off to them. :-)
Yellowstone National Park, WY
06-10-24
At each Geyser Basin I'd stop at each geyser and stick around for a five or ten minutes, awaiting an eruption. I did get a few bubbles here and there, like with this one, and a couple of geysers actually spewed hot steam and water about 8-10 feet in the air. Of course, you can always rely upon "Old Faithful" to erupt every 90 minutes or so.
Still the "paint pots" and "thermal ponds" were colorful and vibrant.
I read and saw some video taken about a week or so ago in Biscuit Basin, where a "thermal explosion" sent rocks, debris, and scalding hot water about 20 feet in the air and destroyed some of the wooden boardwalks in the bargain. Wish I'd been there to photograph that geyser! But then again, I really don't want to threaten my life for the sake of my photography. At least the sky was beautiful on the day I went "browsing Biscuit Basin."
Originally called simply “The Park”, this beautiful little valley, Walker’s Basin, was named for Joseph Reddford Walker who was a pathfinder and scout for General Fremont. Walker came through this area in 1834 when he came down the San Joaquin Valley from Monterey and led his party out of the valley and over the pass which was also named for him…Walker Pass. The first settlers came to Walker’s Basin long before roads came. The trail leading up Walker’s Basin Creek through the Basin and over the mountain pass was the route of the Union Soldiers during the Civil War as they journeyed between Fort Tejon and Fort Independence (near Bishop in northern California). This northeast looking view was taken from the mountain to the south along the Caliente Bodfish Road.
Walker Basin is a triangular-shaped alluvial basin bounded on the west by the Breckenridge fault (not visible in this photo) and on the east by Greenhorn Mountains bedrock escarpment (which is visible in photo). Late Quaternary alluvial and fluvial deposits comprise the floor of Walker Basin and abut the steep, east-facing bedrock escarpment along the Breckenridge fault. The Breckenridge fault dies out southward at Rankin Ranch.
Very easy to see why Badwater Basin draws in the crowds. This particular formation was a little further south from the herds. It wasn't too long after this visit that the area was covered in water.
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