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25-MAY-2010

Canary Springs, Yellowstone National Park, 2010

Using a 16mm wideangle lens, I was able to build my foreground out of the patterns left by calcium deposits, while at the same time lead the eye to the steaming terraces and the spectacular cloud formation at the top of the image. The dead trees are casualties of nature at work.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1
1/1000s f/13.0 at 8.0mm iso100 full exif

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Phil Douglis26-Jun-2010 18:43
The colors were also important to me, Tim -- as you say, particularly in the sky. The contrast between the purplish clouds and the oxidized rock is striking, and the extreme wideangle lens certainly emphasizes it.
Tim May26-Jun-2010 15:46
Another beauty - I know that the point here is the wide angle - but.... the sky, the sky - wow and the steam rising to meet it.
Phil Douglis22-Jun-2010 20:48
I built the image around that dead tree, Iris. With the superwideangle lens, you have to built the image around the foreground, and that is what happened here. Thanks for enjoying it.
Iris Maybloom (irislm)22-Jun-2010 00:23
This is surreal, Phil. The dead tree on the ground draws you into a magical landscape.
Phil Douglis17-Jun-2010 18:06
The subject itself is almost surreal, Carol. By using the wideangle lens, I increase the emphasis on the surreal, and tell the story of nature at work in a very unique way. There are so many incongruities here -- the calcified foreground, the dead trees echoing the twisted channels of calcified rock, the steaming earth, and the amazing deep purple clouds overhead. The wideangle embraces them all at once here.
Carol E Sandgren17-Jun-2010 02:05
Your wide lens certainly captures the power and grandeur of these springs. So dangerous to some, but so beautiful nonetheless. It's all here in your image...the clouds of a stormy sky, the steam rising from the springs, the pools that evaporate, the calcium shapes and layers as a result, and the dead tree remnants as a consequence. Nature works in mysterious ways. Powerful and absolutely beautiful image.
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