The final image of this photo-essay offers a strikingly different vision of one of the most photographed vistas in the world. Normally, photographers are likely to concentrate on the thundering Upper Falls and its relationship to the Yellowstone River. I’ve done this myself on previous visits to the Park. (See http://www.pbase.com/pnd1/zooming ) In this case, however, I wanted the scene to work more as a symbol of the coming of spring, a visual story of growth and regeneration. And so I used a 14mm wideangle focal length to devote over half the image to the powerfully symbolic burst of clouds high over the scene. The mighty falls and the river that flows from it are minimized here, becoming mere context for the cloudscape, instead of the subject itself. A closer look reveals spots of melting snow, and a screen of foliage frames the scene in the foreground. The image works as a metaphor for the coming of spring to Yellowstone, and this scene offers a perfect context for it.