This hot spring is one of the ten thousand thermal features that make Yellowstone unique. This travertine stone is in the process of getting larger – it grows up to two feet a year. The key to its beauty is its color, and its incongruous melting pattern, as well as the color of its surroundings. I built this five-layer image around the layers of color that flow within the frame. My foreground layer is dominated by rust colored vegetation. I connect this layer of red vegetation to the rust colors on the rock, with a transitional layer made up of yellowish brown earth in the center of the image. Two other layers surround this transitional layer – the green tree on the left side of the frame, and the atmospheric steam rising from the earth in the background. If we look at the structure of this image as a “C” shaped flow made up of red vegetation, green vegetation, steam, and rust colored rock with oozing limestone, we can see how important that transitional layer of earth in the middle of the “C” is to the composition. It links color to color and at the same time, creates a sense of depth perception.