Geyser watching at Yellowstone is a spectator sport. It takes a lot of patience. One never knows when nature will take its course and send steam and water erupting into the sky. I found this geyser-watcher relaxing in his camp chair, his eyes trained on the softly steaming hulk of White Dome. My overhead vantage point stresses his patience – he could be there for another hour before it erupts. Actually, the geyser erupted while I was still photographing him, but those images were not nearly as incongruous as this one because once the geyser went to work, all the passive contrast between the watcher and the watched vanished.