The message of this image comes through the spacing and body language of the silhouetted figures walking through this, the largest hot spring in Yellowstone Park. Fittingly, these people also provide the transitional layer for this image. They link the layers of water and grass that take up the bottom half of the image, with the steam and abstracted forest that make up the top half of the image and gives this place its identity. Their dark tone extends the darkness of the grass up into the rising columns of boiling steam. They keep just enough distance between each other to provide a sense of privacy while walking through a magical place. The man at left trails his leg behind him and seems to wear a flapping scarf. The woman at the right bends her head and body to the left while striding through the steam. Do they know each other or are they complete strangers? Ultimately, whether linked or not, they do join together to create a transitional layer linking the water and land below them to the steam that rises above them.