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The most spectacularly beautiful geothermal feature in Yellowstone is the Grand Prismatic. Its distinctive rainbow colours are formed by different sorts of bacteria. Only the hottest center of the spring (up to 87° c) is virtually lifeless.
"Nothing ever conceived by human art could equal the peculiar vividness and delicacy of color of these remarkable prismatic springs. Life becomes a privilege and a blessing after one has seen and thoroughly felt these incomparable types of nature's cunning skill." (Ferdinand Hayden in 1871).
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Featured on the Summer special edition of National Geographic (not my photo, this one is), situated in Midway Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park. About 370 feet (113 m) across and 121 feet (37 m) deep, is one of the worlds largest hot springs and a geological phenomenon as well as one of Yellowstone's most truly amazing splendors.
Grand Prismatic Spring is located in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. It is the largest hot spring in the United States, measuring 370 feet in diameter and 160 feet deep. The photo of this iconic pool was taken from a nearby overlook.
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Even though the actual spring is usually obscured by mist, the runoff around the Grand Prismatic spring is always beautiful to view and photograph.
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The Grand Prismatic is the largest and most famous of the hot springs in Yellowstone National Park. It is 370 feet in diameter and 160 feet deep with a flow of 560 gallons per minute. The blue water has an approximate temp of 189 degrees and is clearest because few thermophiles live in the highest temperatures. As the water spreads and cools, microbial mats form with vivid colors of yellow, orange and brown. Each color is from different microbes that prefer different temperatures. Their colors are from carotenoids produced during photosynthesis. The white areas are created when the mineral rich water dries.
Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park. Such a wild place Yellowstone is. Like another world. The smells the views. It's one of the strangest, if not the strangest, places I've ever been.
You have probably seen it many times. This was from a overlook after a short hike. An early morning setting with a few clouds would have been much better. Maybe next time!
Grand Prismatic Spring is in the Midway Yellowstone Geyser Basin, and, because of its size (a bit larger than a football field) and color, is one of the most popular hot springs in the park. There are always a multitude of people here, and parking is at a premium. We were hoping to avoid crowds on this rather cool, rainy, windy day, but everyone else in Wyoming had the same idea!
This is not your typical shot of the Grand Prismatic spring in Yellowstone National Park. There is an overlook where you can take it all in, which produces an otherworldly view (Click here). I wanted to do something a bit different. So I used the 600mm to make a panorama (about 8 images stitched together) of just one corner of the spring. I was mesmerized by the detail. Who knew that 600mm could be a landscape lens! ;-)
On the walk to this overlook I was able to capture two bird shots, which were posted earlier, plus this one. A pretty good haul for one trail.
This is the Grand Prismatic Spring at the Midway Geyser Basin in Yellowstone. It is the 3rd largest hot spring in the world and the largest in the United States. The depth is 160 ft (~48m). The water temperature is 160ºF (~70ºC). It discharges 560 gallons (~2100L) per minute. When we visited it up close it was shrouded in fog so I felt fortunate to get this view of it from an overlook later in the day. It was interesting to see at a lot of the stops, signs for No Drones. Understandable, but interesting to me that we live in a world where flying drones are common enough that there have to be signs forbidding their use in certain areas
In Yellowstone park, the Grand Prismatic is the 3rd largest spring in the world and probably the most photographed. From the east parking lot, its less than a 1/2 mile walk to the overview. The overview path splits to the left and is uphill but well worth the effort for this view. Awesome colors !
Just before sunset with the mist being lit by the sun's low angle. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, July 2020
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The best views of the Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone is from the upper observatory on the Fair Falls trail. I find the abstracts created with a longer lens to be the most unique of this beautiful spot.
The Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is the largest hot spring in the United States.The vivid colors in the spring are the result of microbial mats around the edges of the mineral-rich water. The mats produce colors ranging from green to red; the amount of color in the microbial mats depends on the ratio of chlorophyll to carotenoids and on the temperature gradient in the runoff. In the summer, the mats tend to be orange and red, whereas in the winter the mats are usually dark green. The center of the pool is sterile due to extreme heat.
Amidst little deaths,
songs remain unsung
Dreary is my soul, as
colors come unstrung
Nerdy detail: Strung from eleven vertical shots.
Solo show, The Phases and Faces of Water, at JCC Bridgewater NJ, Nov, 2016
Solo show "As Seen Through a Veil: The Obscured View," at Gallery 14, 14 Mercer St, Hopewell, NJ, Jan 6 - Feb 5, 2017
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Well, this shot cost me a day and about $400 to rekey... The night before as I was shooting the northern lights at this same spot, somehow the rental car key fell out of my pocket and vanished. The sea ice was moving, so it likely got gobbled by the Icelandic troll that monitors these seascapes. Legend has it that Hvitserkur is a petrified troll. It also could easily have been the elves. Regardless, I was incredibly lucky to have some photographers from Spain come back to shoot sunrise, cart me to the freeway (loosely called that) and land a ride from the north all the way to Reykjavik, then somehow hitch all the way back up before complete nightfall thanks to the lady running the hotel Hvitserkur who came and got me at the highway. What an adventure... And a cold one. Hitching at -8 seems to have advantages as it seems you get picked up fairly quickly. I guess they feel sorry for you.