Finally, Yellowstone's Crown Jewels - which one do you prefer?
Sep 17, 2018 22:35:41 #
Sunnely
Loc: Wisconsin
SET A: Grand Prismatic Spring in the Midway Geyser Spring Basin: Photos 1 & 2 (boardwalk to GPS), 3 (GPS itself; sorry, not an aerial view), 4 (Firehole River where runoff from the nerby Excelsior Geyser flows into)
SET B: Old Faithful in the Upper Geyser Basin: Photos 5 (people starting to gather for good seats and view), 6 (photo of eruption taken from very front row), 7 (photo of people from very front row, left side), 8 (photo taken on same side, this time behind the people), 9 (Posting for the next probable time of eruption; located inside Old Faithful Inn)
A few words about Grand Prismatic Spring: 1) One of the World's Top 100 Unforgettable Destinations by National Geographic, 2) US largest hot spring at 370 feet in diameter, 160 feet deep (3rd largest in the world), 3) The bands of orange, yellow, and green rings in deep blue water is due to the action of thermophylic bacteria, 4) Temperature varies from 147-188 F during the year.
A few words about Old Faithful Geyser: 1) Named for its frequent and somewhat predictable eruptions, 2) Eruption intervals range from 60-110 minutes, 3) Height of eruptions vary from 100-180 feet, 4) Eruptions normally last between 1.5 to 5 minutes, 5) Erupts around 20 times daily; predicted to +/- 10 minutes with confidence rate of 90%, 6) Most famous among the nearly 500 geysers in Yellowstone, and 7) Upwards of 4 million visitors annually.
Camera: Nikon D7200
Lens: Tamron 18-400 mm
Suggestions to improve photos, welcome. Still new to digital photography and post processing.
Thanks for looking.
SET B: Old Faithful in the Upper Geyser Basin: Photos 5 (people starting to gather for good seats and view), 6 (photo of eruption taken from very front row), 7 (photo of people from very front row, left side), 8 (photo taken on same side, this time behind the people), 9 (Posting for the next probable time of eruption; located inside Old Faithful Inn)
A few words about Grand Prismatic Spring: 1) One of the World's Top 100 Unforgettable Destinations by National Geographic, 2) US largest hot spring at 370 feet in diameter, 160 feet deep (3rd largest in the world), 3) The bands of orange, yellow, and green rings in deep blue water is due to the action of thermophylic bacteria, 4) Temperature varies from 147-188 F during the year.
A few words about Old Faithful Geyser: 1) Named for its frequent and somewhat predictable eruptions, 2) Eruption intervals range from 60-110 minutes, 3) Height of eruptions vary from 100-180 feet, 4) Eruptions normally last between 1.5 to 5 minutes, 5) Erupts around 20 times daily; predicted to +/- 10 minutes with confidence rate of 90%, 6) Most famous among the nearly 500 geysers in Yellowstone, and 7) Upwards of 4 million visitors annually.
Camera: Nikon D7200
Lens: Tamron 18-400 mm
Suggestions to improve photos, welcome. Still new to digital photography and post processing.
Thanks for looking.
Sep 18, 2018 16:04:21 #
Sep 18, 2018 19:36:35 #
Sunnely wrote:
SET A: Grand Prismatic Spring in the Midway Geyse... (show quote)
Tourist traps! Get out and see the real park.
Sep 18, 2018 22:37:59 #
Sunnely
Loc: Wisconsin
davidrb wrote:
Tourist traps! Get out and see the real park.
Pardon me, but isn't Yellowstone National Park a real park?
I believe it has been since March 1, 1872 when President Ulysses Grant signed the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act into law making it the world's first national park.1 In 2017, there were 4,116,528 visitors, second only to the record of 2016 at 427,178 visitors.2
Yellowstone National Park offers a variety of activities including but not limited to camping, day hiking, photography, bicycling, boating, backcountry camping, fishing, horseback riding, llama packing, wildlife watching, snowmobiling, skiing and snowshoeing, and snowcoach tours.3 The National Geographic lists Yellowstone's Grand Prismatic National Park as one of the World's Top 100 Unforgettable Destinations, among BestLife's "50 Magical Destinations So Magical You Won't Believe They're in the US," and US News and World Report's # 1 among the Best Places to Visit in the USA.4,5,6. If these facts do not qualify Yellowstone to be a real national park, I don't know what is.
Yellowstone's popularity among the tourists does have its pros and cons. For example, one study found that for every 100,000 acres of protected public land in Greater Yellowstone and other non-major metro areas in the West, there has been a corresponding rise of $4,360 in per capita income. In addition, in western rural counties with more than 30 percent of land safeguarded as national parks, federal wilderness, or national forests, job creation increased collectively by 345 percent over the past 40 years, compared with an increase in employment of 83 percent in similar counties with little or no protected federal land. OTOH, an economist, Ray Rasker, expressed fear that the boon in tourism may turn "Greater Yellowstone into the places people fled from—and want to leave behind.”7
What is a "tourist trap." It is up to the paying customers (tourists) themselves to decide. If Yellowstone National Park is a tourist "trap," please let me in, throw all the keys away, and let me enjoy its BEAUTY forever.
Just my 2 cents.
Sources:
1. https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/historyculture/yellowstoneestablishment.htm
2. http://www.yellowstone.co/stats.htm
3. https://www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/things2do.htm
4. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/05/yellowstone-national-parks-tourism/
5. https://bestlifeonline.com/destinations-so-magical-you-wont-believe-theyre-in-the-u-s/
6. https://travel.usnews.com/rankings/best-usa-vacations/
7. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/05/yellowstone-national-parks-tourism/
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