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Mammoth Hot Springs


Mammoth Hot Springs
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Copyright: Jeffrey Sperl (dominant) (124)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2009-05-31
Categories: Nature
Camera: Canon PowerShot SD790 IS
Exposure: f/8, 1/400 seconds
Map: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2009-07-13 22:25
Viewed: 140
Points: 4
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
At Mammoth Hot Springs, a rarer kind of spring is born when the hot water ascends through the ancient limestone deposits of the area instead of the silica-rich lava flows of the hot springs common elsewhere in the park. The results are strikingly different and unique. They invoke a landscape that resembles a cave turned inside out, with its delicate features exposed for all to see. The flowing waters spill across the surface to sculpt magnificent travertine limestone terraces. As one early visitor described them, "No human architect ever designed such intricate fountains as these. The water trickles over the edges from one to another, blending them together with the effect of a frozen waterfall."

-http://www.nps.gov/yell/naturescience/mamterr.htm

First time to Yellowstone, and I liked it alot more than I thought I would.

thin black border as usual
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Nice expansive panorama. The dead bush to the right adds greatly to the image. Impressive sky.
Maybe a closer crop would have worked better. Than I would lose the left part of your photo (with the white that are very close to overexposed). But I would include the darker shape in the middle, the dead bush and the most distant mountains. You could go for a larger format too than. But this is all personal taste. The photo stands as it is. Good work

Joris

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  • bri Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 363 W: 0 N: 435] (2343)
  • [2009-07-14 5:03]

Hi Jeffrey,
Great panoramic shot, the colours and framing are great, as Joris suggested a closer crop may have worked better but it is only personal opinion, IMO I prefer it this way. TFS
Bri

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