With springtime rolling on, it’s a great time to get landscape photography. There’s dramatic skies, snow-topped mountains in the distance, and green returning to the world. It makes some amazing scenery and great subject matter for the camera. Imagine combining both turbulence and calm into one landscape photo. Today’s new featured photo is proof of that.
I do enjoy getting out with my camera into some of the more beautiful places in the world. Yellowstone National Park ranks among such places. There’s so much to see and such a wide variety of terrain that you can get such different landscapes just a few miles apart.
One such beautiful landscape is that of Yellowstone Lake, the single largest mountain lake in the continental US. It’s so big that they have ships there for transportation. One particularly large outcropping of this beautiful lake is known as West Thumb. It’s almost as big as the lake proper is.
While taking a recent trip to the park, we drove around the lake to check it out. The light was soft and diffuse thanks to the dramatic spring clouds blocking direct sunlight. Then I found something which was amazing.
What I found was a little sandbar strip of land which was extending out into the lake and blocking off much of the waves from the rest of the lake. The wind was whipping up waves but there was an area of mirrored reflection across a small portion of the lake. The juxtaposition of such turbulence and calm right next to each other was worth pulling out the camera for so I pulled out my camera.
Thanks to the green forest in the background and the snow-capped peaks in the distance, I had quite the beautiful view. Again, thanks to the isthmus, I had a beautiful view of turbulence and calm on Yellowstone Lake’s West Thumb.
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