When you are waiting for sunrise at Old Faithful, what do you do? I play around taking photos of Old Faithful's steam. In spite of all the pretty clouds, we got no color at sunrise.
Great Fountain Geyser steaming while sunset-colored clouds race overhead. After most of the color seemed to be gone from the sky, my camera was still recording the reds, yellows, and oranges of the sunset. A 30-second exposure recorded the cloud movement and made the steam from Great Fountain's vent an almost ghostly apparition.
I took this photo opening weekend. On the third Friday in April the roads from Mammoth Hot Springs to Canyon and Old Faithful and the West Entrance open for guests. I took the opportunity on that Saturday to visit the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and photograph the rainbow from Lookout Point.
