I'm presenting my new images in no particular order, except to build suspense for the best images of the Tetons. For now, I give you the colors of the Grand Prismatic hot spring in Yellowstone National Park.

This image was simply taken on the boardwalk that encircles the spring. Use of a polarizer helped preserve the rich colors of the bacteria that live in mats surrounding the spring.

No digital negative, no matter how well captured, can fully represent the richness of color and texture of a scene like this without development in software, and development is where the art in photography happens. For that I use the Nik Collection, an incredible collection of tools that bring out amazing qualities in correctly captured negatives. Nik Color Efex Pro 4 is particularly a dream come true for images like this. The colors, shapes and textures border on surreal but are actually reasonably faithful as an artistic interpretation goes without becoming a special effect.

GYT-0484-Edit Captured with a NIkon D200, 12-24 DX lens, exposure set to f/6.3 @ 1/160, ISO 200.

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