I used a 28mm wideangle lens turned vertically to make the boardwalk over Yellowstone’s largest hot spring into a symbolic road to the future. The sun is behind the cloud at upper right, backlighting the scene, making silhouettes out of the people and causing the edges of the rain clouds to glow surreally against the lacy clouds behind them. I juxtapose the people with the steam rising from the hot spring, isolating them in space and preventing them from merging into the background. The sheer scale of the scene has impressive grandeur, as it incongruously integrates the worlds of both man and nature.