The Grand Prismatic Spring is the largest hot spring in Yellowstone National Park and the third-largest in the world. Its vibrant colors result from heat-loving microorganisms that thrive in the warm outer rings of the spring. The deep blue center is too hot for these colorful thermophiles to survive. My first visit to Yellowstone as…
Sand grains of nearly pure quartz sand, recrystallized and fused together with extreme heat and pressure, formed the metamorphic rock Medicine Peak Quartzite, giving these mountains an appearance of a year-round, snow-white covering. Snowy Mountains – Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest. (Centennial, Wyoming) ≡Canon R5/RF24-240 55mm f/13 1/100sec iso-100
The high-alpine Lake Marie nestled in the Snowy Mountains, where harsh winters give way for a few months each year for regeneration – Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest. This looked like a place I could get away to for regeneration. (Centennial, Wyoming) ≡Canon R5/RF24-240 52mm f/10 1/100sec iso-100