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If you're a tree, it's best not to put down roots in the Yellowstone Geyser Basin. You may find yourself roots-up within a short period of time. The combination of acidic boiling mud and sulphur can be a real showstopper where life is concerned. It definitely ruined my sense of smell. But it sure was pretty there.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
It looks like those two trees can fall into Vermilion River any minute now!
We are on a trail along the river that will lead us to the Paint Pots in Kootenay NP, Canada. The Paint Pots can be seen on the cover of my album. It's a very beautiful hike through some wild and lonely country. [Explored on 26/06/2021, #107]
Der "Angel with Paintpot" ("Engel mit Farbeimer") oder "Angel Bust" wurde für die Ausstellung “Banksy versus Bristol Museum“ im Jahr 2009 entworfen
This is pure nature, not a man-made paint pot! It's ochre earth with a layer of water. On the water is an insect and that's why you can see its shadow UNDER the insect. Want to know more? See my previous photo.
The Paint Pots are one of the most popular destinations for a hike in Kootenay NP, Canada. They are ochre mineral sources, an unusual geological phenomenon, once used as paint by the first inhabitants of this area.
Some trees in the background are dead: they will have been victims of the wildfire that raged here in 2003.
Still, I was highly impressed by the beauty of the area!
Taken from the same point as the other panorama, this photo is looking up, towards a near mountain top. Combine this photo with 'Ochre Creek (1)' to get a 180° panorama of the area above the Paint Pots in Kootenay.
From the 'Paint Pots' we climbed till a point high above Vermillion River - you can just see it below. It was a beautiful, lonely place, full of wildflowers.
It is a strange world, when you walk past the Paint Pots in Kootenay National Park. For more info on this natural phenomenon, see my previous photos and the album cover.
Fly agarics growing under an evergreen tree. I counted at least a dozen. This colony comes up every year and the people who own the garden are amused by me turning up every year to photograph their patch.
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Thermal features are often hard to see when surveying a hillside such as this one in the Back Basin of Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Named for Dr, George Nelson Allen, a geologist from Oberlin College who was part of the first geological survey of Yellowstone National Park under Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, the crater of this feature cannot be seen from the trail. It is often a fumarole but sometimes functions as a mud volcano. On those occasions, bursts of mud can sometimes be seen from the Back Basin Trail.
It is easy to feel at peace when faced with an infinite natural landscape. In these turbulent times, it's essential tonic for the soul.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
A trip on the boardwalk around the Fountain Paintpots seeing the geysers and other thermal features. One of my favorite places in Yellowstone.
Silhouettes of partially burned lodgepole pine forest on a misty morning at Artists' Paintpots area of the Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
Another selection from day one of our trip to Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons. This is near Old Faithful, but I cannot recall the name of the formation. Let me know if you recognize it.
You can find more photos from day one of our trip here.
A detail of the Artists Paintpots almost looks like a painter palette with a variety of colors. Yellowstone's Artists' Paintpots has a group of over 50 springs, geysers, vents and especially mud pots. You will see pastel-colored mud and springs, bubbling and gurgling under a blanket of steam.
The colors at the Fountain Paint Pots in Yellowstone National Park seemed more intense while contrasted against the snowy winter backdrop.
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The last week of May of 2014 may have been the best time at Yellowstone. Weather was perfect. Clouds were billowy, and the sky was (mostly) sparkling blue. Not quite as much wildlife, but that's why we've been there four times in four different months (and decades).
Yellowstone NP, Wyoming
It really is difficult to get a feeling for the complexity of the colors and the noxious fumes blowing in your face and the amazing plants which tenaciously grow in and alongside the seething wetlands. You can see where the plants started and did well for a while and then became victims of the changing patterns of geothermal activity.
Mosses and lichen seem to do well in this area though. That hillside is covered with mossy goodness.
Trees have a hard time around thermal features. The remains of a lodgepole pine along the Fountain paintpots boardwalk in Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.
Yellowstone Park is a massive thermal wound on the crust of the earth. Many areas in the park contain boiling cauldrons of percolating mud, sulfur fumes that make rotten eggs smell like perfume, and gassy geysers that hiss and boil like eruptions from the underworld. It is a unique world where the beauty of death stands center stage, in a magical land where the buffalo still roam free.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Clepsydra geyser plays from several vents in and around its yellow cone next to a shallow blue pool. This photo was taken on the afternoon of July 8, 2024. Because of the regularity of its eruption in 1873, this geyser was named after the Greek water clock by geologist, Theodore B. Comstock, a member of the Jones Expedition (1873). Clepsydra, which is located in the Lower Geyser Basin near Fountain Geyser in Yellowstone National Park Wyoming, was not always regular in the period between 1873 and 1959. It did have periods of eratic behavior and even dormancy. After the 1959 earthquake it entered into a ‘wild phase” and has erupted almost continually since pausing sometimes for a few minutes at the end of a Fountain eruption.
One of the Paint Pots at Kootenay National Park.
The landscape surrounding the Paint Pots is uniquely created. The iron ore accumulates around the edge of the 3 pools increases the height. As a nearby stream flows into 2 of the larger pools, a greenish color is created. As these mineral pools bubble up, the iron ore stains the earth around the pools an orange-red color. The material itself can look and feel like clay and can be found in a variety of colors from red to orange to yellow; red ochre because of hematite mineral or be yellow ochre because of limonite mineral.
The Paint Pots were a major source of the ochre paint pigment for a number of First Nations groups prior to the 20th century. It is still considered as a sacred place.
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I have been fortunate enough to have made (or been taken on) seven vacations in Yellowstone National Park. On at least three of these trips, I took a photo of this exact same spot, and two of the three cannot be distinguished from each other other than those marvelous clouds and crisp blue Wyoming skies.
This MAY be one of 60 slides that I converted to print. I bought a slide scanner years ago. I got through half a tray. It cost a fortunate to prove my lack of motivation and, then, skill. Oh, so you have to clean the slides first. You know what's a better idea? Put the money that you were about to spend on a slide scanner into a vacation in Yellowstone, find Paintpots where there was a five five or six years earlier. Wait for clouds. Take the picture, come home, stop paying attention, and format the card just after you found the one shot you were looking for.
Take another trip to Yellowstone. Go to the gift store. Sit on the floor looking for this particular shot . Two days later, feeling slightly dejected, go home. But not before you've taken another 4000 images with you digital camera! Resign, and enjoy life ;-)
THIS is from our last trip. I found the original print in an album downstairs dated June 1976. It's almost identical except that I really did improve in 40+ years. This image was sold to a local company in San Something, California. I do retain the rights, of course, but who bought it will remain a secret until the auditors are done with all expense accounts.
One of my "leftovers" from Yellowstone that I never got to until this morning. As I kept staring at this one Paintpot (in the Norris Geyser Basin) geyser, I kept thinking that Yellowstone can't just be seen; it has to be experienced.
Yellowstone is not just anything. Not wildlife, not scenics, not wildflowers, and not just Old Faithful. "Yellowstone National Park is an American national park located in the western United States, with parts in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. It was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872. Yellowstone was the first national park in the U.S. and is also widely held to be the first national park in the world. The park is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features, especially Old Faithful geyser, one of its most popular.While it represents many types of biomes, the subalpine forest is the most abundant. It is part of the South Central Rockies forests ecoregion."
I've been fortunate to experience Yellowstone seven times since 1947. Well, I've visited the park for more than six days each visit, but haven't experienced the 3,468.4 square miles! I've "done" perhaps 50. My parents had to show me its wonders, and I had to show my wife, and then my kids. So we always stated with Old Faithful, but during the visit of 2014, we took in Coulter Bay*, and most of the geysers, and the Bison and Pronghorn herds during calving, and what was open on the Lamar Valley. We were there for the two weeks before the park was officially open for 2014.
The geothermal areas of Yellowstone include several geyser basins in Yellowstone National Park as well as other geothermal features such as hot springs, mud pots, and fumaroles. The number of thermal features in Yellowstone is estimated at 10,000. We managed 20, and were fascinated by the colors. The bright, vivid colors in the spring are the result of microbial mats around the edges of the mineral-rich water. ... The deep blue color of the water in the center of the pool results from the intrinsic blue color of water. The effect is strongest in the center of the spring, because of its sterility and depth. We were lucky to see 20.
Footnote though a highlight: I added 11 species of birds in our first three days. *Coulter, technically part of the Grand Tetons.
Pictured here is the exterior of La Grotta Ceramiche in Grottaglie and the ink pots and powders from the workshop inside, which I became slightly obsessed with! The colours and textures were amazing and watching the works of art the ceramicists created with them was wonderful.
In some ways it took me back to my childhood, I used to love to paint and had a love for colours even back then . . . I remember in pre-school we would all be allocated our own easel complete with butchers paper and our own paint pots and brushes and I vividly remember being very unhappy when I didn't have at full compliment of colours to work with . . . well at least the primary colours any way from which you could create any number of colours!
A little geothermal pool in the Artists Paintposts area. This was a new area visited on the most recent trip. It's a smaller area, but has some interesting features, like this narrow curvy one with vegetation growing right up to its edge and a milky turquoise water color. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, July 2020
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The last few visits we made to Yellowstone, something changed. I was no longer going to wait for Old Faithful, going looking for bison when there was already one in front of the car, look for new bird species, and all the other things I did on my first five visits. This time, in late May, it was cool, the skies were a beautiful blue, there were puffy clouds almost every day, the air was so clean you could taste it, and all the colors seemed more vibrant. It was the colors that really drew me in.
We went to Lamar Valley, but even with the new (at the time) Canon SX50, it was not long enough to get really good shots of pronghorn and bison. I did get a beautiful coyote there, but I kept being drawn back to the geysers and pools with algae which had formed unbelievable scenes.
I thought I'd take a one day break from dragons and damsels and show you one of the most remarkable pools at Norris Basin (just down the road from Old Faithful and Paintpots).
The wind was blowing, and all the steam was well out of frame.
[Dragons and damsels will be back on Sunday, unless I can ID any one of 30 wildflowers that are still in the queue. Oh, btw, just because I didn't go to Yellowstone to find wildlife doesn't mean I wasn't looking. On day one, I added to my imaginary list, six lifers and two "better renditions" of birds. It was the best 10 days we'd spent in a national park since an almost three-week stay on the Bow River outside Banff before they invented tourists, 1976.]
An evening walk around the Artist Paintpots. Another fascinating area of Yellowstone. The mud volcanos here are particularly mesmerizing, I could just watch them bubble for a long time.
July 6, 2022.
A boiling pot at West Thumb. Some are colorful. All are interesting to see. It's a short walk along the boardwalk though we ended up spending an hour here. Some of the paint pots have turquoise water that rivals the Caribbean Sea. It is next to Grant Village in Yellowstone National Park close to the south gate and Grand Teton NP. Grant Village is an excellent central location. Staying in the park has the advantage of avoiding the traffic entering the park. The rates drop in September and it is cooler. Less fires and not as many bears. Snow is always possible so you have to pay attention to the weather but is year round. The restaurants do start closing in September so you need to check the Park Service website for info on closing dates, fires, and bear alerts. If you stay in Grant Village you're an equal distance from Old Faithful, Grand Teton NP (Colter Bay Village), and Yellowstone Falls. If you come in from West Yellowstone where the airport is you can hit Old Faithful on the way to Grant Village. If you're coming from Jackson Hole you can hit Grand Teton's Colter Bay Village and Jenny Lake. You will also pass Lewis Falls in Yellowstone NP which a great short stop and right next to the road. #WestThumb #NPS #YellowstoneNationalPark #Wyoming #nature #Natur #PaintPots #volcanic #paysage #landscape #Landschaft
Paint Pots - Yellowstone National Park ~ Wyoming ~ USA ~ Tuesday August 22nd 2017.
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