Abandoned farm in the high country east of the Cascade Mountains.
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Another shot from the Norris Geysers area of Yellowstone National Park. I was struck by the contrast of snow covered trees surrounded by streams of boiling water. It is an unearthly and mystical place to explore, especially on a cold morning. You go from bitter cold to sweating in the heat as you go past the geysers, vents, and pools of boiling water. The smell of sulfur is in the air and you can hear the hissing and roaring of the steam coming from the ground.
Sometimes you get an image that just doesn’t work. I was at Johnson Lake in Wyoming trying to shoot some interesting looking clouds. But shooting a panorama facing into the sun usually doesn’t work too well and I couldn’t get this one to look right. So I decided to do some messing around with my photo processing tools. The basic idea of this image is “What if I was having a pleasant day at the lake and then the sun exploded?”
This panorama is probably a bit too wide for the web but I wanted to give an idea of what the full view looks like from some of these mountain passes. I’ll post some more zoomed in images from this location soon. This is the view from Dead Indian Summit in the Absaroka Mountains of Wyoming. Click to see a larger version.