More Surreal Landscape At Mammoth Springs

black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins
edited November 13, 2012 in Landscapes
Imagine this thing cropping up in your backyard.

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I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.

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  • Dr CalohandreDr Calohandre Banned Posts: 213 Major grins
    edited October 31, 2012
    We don't get those; we get giant sinkholes that swallow up houses, roads, cars...(Just saw you are from jacksonville, so you know what I'm talking about). I love the colors in this image. Haven't been there in a long time, but I love Mammoth!
  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins
    edited October 31, 2012
    Dr Calohandre wrote: »
    We don't get those; we get giant sinkholes that swallow up houses, roads, cars...(Just saw you are from jacksonville, so you know what I'm talking about). I love the colors in this image. Haven't been there in a long time, but I love Mammoth!

    Thanks for looking in.

    I just signed up for the sinkhole coverage in my homeowners policy. I think I'm in a pretty secure environment....but who can be really sure about that when all of us here in Florida live on top of sand hills.

    Between the Mammoth Springs area and the major geyser basins, I don't think any landscape can entrance me quite like Yellowstone did. I'm already planning a return visit.

    Tom
    I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.
  • Dr CalohandreDr Calohandre Banned Posts: 213 Major grins
    edited October 31, 2012
    black mamba wrote: »
    Thanks for looking in.

    I just signed up for the sinkhole coverage in my homeowners policy. I think I'm in a pretty secure environment....but who can be really sure about that when all of us here in Florida live on top of sand hills.

    Between the Mammoth Springs area and the major geyser basins, I don't think any landscape can entrance me quite like Yellowstone did. I'm already planning a return visit.

    Tom

    Once you do Yellowstone, make a drop straight down and do a quick run through the Tetons, then further south to Moab & Arches then to Bryce, Zion and the Grand Canyon...it's the most picture perfect 1000 miles you'll ever drive.
  • Mathieu05Mathieu05 Registered Users Posts: 203 Major grins
    edited October 31, 2012
    Are those sulfur? these are amazing images. well done!
    Chris Odchigue | Photography

    “There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.”
  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins
    edited October 31, 2012
    Mathieu05 wrote: »
    Are those sulfur? these are amazing images. well done!

    Hi Chris,

    Thanks for the kind remarks.

    There must certainly be some sulfur present in this mound....there's quite a strong smell of it present. I suspect that a number of other elements are also present. Someone more knowledgeable than myself about this stuff might be able to enlighten both of us. It is, for sure, an arresting sight to see.

    Tom
    I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.
  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins
    edited October 31, 2012
    Dr Calohandre wrote: »
    Once you do Yellowstone, make a drop straight down and do a quick run through the Tetons, then further south to Moab & Arches then to Bryce, Zion and the Grand Canyon...it's the most picture perfect 1000 miles you'll ever drive.

    I did the Teton gig....very impressive. The rest of your proposed journey certainly has an appeal.
    I have been to the Grand Canyon before....a return visit there would be nice.

    Tom
    I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.
  • wfellerwfeller Registered Users Posts: 2,625 Major grins
    edited November 1, 2012
    Tom, I've been pretty much satisfied with remaining provincial, but that first one, that strikes up the itch to go.
    Anybody can do it.
  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins
    edited November 1, 2012
    wfeller wrote: »
    Tom, I've been pretty much satisfied with remaining provincial, but that first one, that strikes up the itch to go.

    Well, Walter, I wish you'd get yourself on up there. Considering your knack for getting landscapes to reveal their most primal character, I'd love to see what secrets you could coax out of Yellowstone.

    Take care and thanks for the visit,

    Tom
    I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.
  • DogdotsDogdots Registered Users Posts: 8,795 Major grins
    edited November 7, 2012
    I'd sell my place if that popped up in my backyard. Funky stuff indeed, but photographs well.
    Mary
    www.Dogdotsphotography.com
  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins
    edited November 8, 2012
    Dogdots wrote: »
    I'd sell my place if that popped up in my backyard. Funky stuff indeed, but photographs well.

    I tell you, Mary, so much of what I saw in Yellowstone is so alien to my experiences that I could only stand there gazing at it....completely mesmerized.

    Tom
    I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.
  • PGMPGM Registered Users Posts: 2,007 Major grins
    edited November 9, 2012
    Amazing! Thanks for posting--I've never seen anything like it! Best, Pam
  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins
    edited November 11, 2012
    PGM wrote: »
    Amazing! Thanks for posting--I've never seen anything like it! Best, Pam

    I've never seen anything like this either, Pam.

    Thanks for the visit,

    Tom
    I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.
  • rwellsrwells Registered Users Posts: 6,084 Major grins
    edited November 12, 2012
    And you Florida guys wonder where all that sink hole material disappears to. rolleyes1.gif

    Nice shots as normal Tom!
    Randy
  • shawncshawnc Registered Users Posts: 718 Major grins
    edited November 13, 2012
    I am not in the habit of posting on someones thread and will remove the image immediately if you like.
    I found something like this in Durango, Co. It was a very colorful mound such as you posted and similar in size. It was a Hot Spring that built up several different types of minerals and algea even some Blue algea. Your image looks very similar and leads me to conclude it is a Hot Spring, which makes sense given the area you shot this. I hunted all thru my Smug Mug pix to see if I had an image of it, but this was all I found. It is a closeup shot of the colors that this "soup" was creating. You can also just make out the outline of a Oak Leave being swallowed up.

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    http://www.shawncarden.smugmug.com/
    https://www.flickr.com/people/scardenphoto/
  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins
    edited November 13, 2012
    rwells wrote: »
    And you Florida guys wonder where all that sink hole material disappears to. rolleyes1.gif

    Nice shots as normal Tom!

    Now why didn't I think of that, Randy. However, I've been fruitlessly looking for a car in that mound I shot. We lose those things in those sinkholes too. :D

    Thanks for the nice comment.

    See you, buddy,

    Tom
    I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.
  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins
    edited November 13, 2012
    For Shawn.....

    I don't mind you including your shot in with your comments. These hydro-thermal features flat out fascinate me. Your shot is interesting....especially that wolf's head in the top left. There's some strange stuff out there.

    Tom
    I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.
  • joshhuntnmjoshhuntnm Registered Users Posts: 1,924 Major grins
    edited November 13, 2012
    I think even I could could take a great shot if I were standing in front of that!
    Josh
    Las Cruces Photographer / Las Cruces Wedding Photographer
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