I'm blaming this post on the weather. Last Wednesday we were getting hit with a snow squall so instead of going out and about I stayed in and did a post on Yellowstone National Park. Instead of snow we just got rain today but in twelve hours or so it should be switching over to ice, so that'll be fun. Seems a good enough excuse to post more photos from Yellowstone...
Yellowstone is an interesting place to shoot, more striking than what I would call beautiful. One minute you're hiking up a mountain, enjoying the view and the next the air reeks of sulfur and you're trying to figure out how you teleported to a volcano.
Well, the general vicinity of a volcano at least. Possibly Mars.
Make that a volcano on Mars. Does Mars have lodgepole pines?
Steaming toxic waste neon algae springs? Well, maybe not Mars after all. Still otherworldly as all hell.
Is there a Top Ten list for 'Worst Places To Drop Acid'? Grizzly bears, scalding hot springs, lots of dead things, Yellowstone would about have to be near the top of that list.
Hell, the earth regularly belches out steam and scalding hot water on a regular basis there. Some of them like Old Faithful above are even on a schedule.
Probably about the closest you'll be able to come to visiting Mordor on this planet.
The Grand Prismatic Spring is just the Eye of Sauron in disguise.
Gollum has got to be around here somewhere...
If you get close enough bison bear a striking resemblance to orcs.
They about as friendly as one too.
If canyons are your thing, Yellowstone has a grand one.
Comes complete with waterfall and all!
I can almost smell the sulfur at this point so it's probably time to bring this to a close. What's the most otherworldly place you've been?
