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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Seventy Six: Spring comes to Yellowstone – a travel photo-essay > Ice breaks up on Lake Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, 2010
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27-MAY-2010

Ice breaks up on Lake Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, 2010

Lake Yellowstone is North America’s largest mountain lake. It is 20 miles long, and can be as deep as 430 feet. During the winter, it freezes over. We were there as the ice was breaking up, the blue sky reflected in the patches of frigid water. I watched the body language of the tourists viewing the lake from Pumice Point and made this image at the most expressive moment. Snow may still blanket the distant peaks, yet there is no doubt that spring has come as well.

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Phil Douglis26-Jun-2010 18:32
Nature is the essence of Yellowstone, Tim. It sits, after all, upon a volcanic crater that obviously is very much at work deep below the earth. This lake and the surrounding peaks are ever present reminders of that fact.
Tim May26-Jun-2010 15:43
Often, I think, we forget that Yellowstone is more than wildlife and steam. It is also just raw nature - this image captures part of that other Yellowstone.
Phil Douglis23-Jun-2010 18:39
Thanks, Iris, for giving the body language some context here. It was a spectacular sight, to be sure, and the energy expressed here certainly adds an exclamation point.
Iris Maybloom (irislm)22-Jun-2010 23:10
Spectacular image of the last vestiges of winter. The body language of the man echos the "wow" response we all had when viewing this scene.
Phil Douglis18-Jun-2010 23:47
I tried to imply some aspect of the coming of spring in most of the images in this gallery, Rose -- that was the theme of the photo story, and this image plays a significant role in it.
sunlightpix18-Jun-2010 20:24
Those patches of blue sky symbolize the promise of spring and the cycle of the seasons. Beautiful!
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