Oct
12
2007
Firehole Springs
Posted by: Mike Goad in On the road, Photo Hunters, Wyoming, lakes, rivers, wetlands, landscapes, parks, thermal featuresPhotoHunt topic: Smelly
If you’ve ever been to Yellowstone National Park, you’ll remember the hydrogen sulfide smells — the rotten egg smell — of the geothermal features. One of the places I recall the smell from is Firehole Spring.
Firehole Spring is almost constantly erupting, sending very hot water a few feet in the air. The hotter water is in the blue, steaming pool. As the water runs out of the pool, it cools. The colorful areas where the water runs off are created by thermophilic bacteria and algae that can only survive in the heated water.
Top picture: composite of two images: September 12, 2007, 10:11 P.M. - Pentax K10D: ISO 100, 18mm focal length (27mm in 35mm format), 1/350 second, F6.7
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October 12th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Very cool looking, but I bet is is terribly smelly! Happy photo hunting!
October 12th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
Smelly beauty - a novel approach!
cheers.
October 12th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
What a great smelly photo!!
October 12th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Definitely a place I have to visit one day even if it is smelly. Great photos. Happy weekend
October 12th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Thats nice shot and looks really smelly. Thanks the comment
October 12th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Wow - that first photo is so amazing!
Happy Weekend.
October 12th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Those are wonderful shot and work well for the theme.
October 12th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Very good photo’s !! You did a good job!! Have a great weekend! Grams
October 12th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Amazing pictures. You showed the smelly in photos without actually being right there… awesome!
October 12th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
I’ve been there, it is smelly…Great pics!
October 12th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
These are beautiful shots–never been there so I will trust you on the smell.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
wow, what interesting information–I did not know that! Great shots for smelly.
October 12th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
I remember that smell. It is awful. Your photos are so awesome!
October 12th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Awesome photos !
I have done mine Smelly post too
http://www.keeyit.com/index.php/2007/10/13/photo-hunter-smelly/
Happy Weekend~
October 12th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
I haven’t been to the Yellowstone National Park, but I totally know what you mean! I saw and smelled lots of this where I lived…
Awsome pictures!!!
October 12th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
I can imagine the smell.. the rotten egg smell of H2S. Reminiscing those days during secondary school time in chemistry lab when we added in chemicals to produce hydrogen sulfide
October 12th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
This would be great to show these photos to kids in school, to understand the bacteria that grows and thrives in warm, hot water! Very cool photos! As usual! My photo is up, I ran off to the grocery store….
October 12th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
Wow. I’m impressed with these photos! Great take on this week’s theme.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
Great photos! Now I have another reason to visit - to smell!
October 13th, 2007 at 1:32 am
I like this sharing. Informative.
October 13th, 2007 at 1:44 am
wow, I am definitely going to have to visit this soon. Great photos!
October 13th, 2007 at 3:56 am
It’s so great how the photohunt shows us places in the world we’ll never get to see! I would probably not appreciate the smell in the depicted location, but the photos are awesome… as usual!
Have a happy weekend!
October 13th, 2007 at 7:26 am
Excellent post and depicted very well…..
October 13th, 2007 at 8:26 am
WOW, excellent shots!
October 13th, 2007 at 9:16 am
Great shots of the spring! Just beautiful.
Thermal springs can certainly be very smelly.
My smelly photo.
October 13th, 2007 at 9:52 am
Great pics, how amazing to witness this strange place
October 13th, 2007 at 10:20 am
Those are great photos and perfect for ’smelly’!
October 13th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Lovely shots!
happy weekend!
October 13th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
Wow! Excellent photos! Makes me remember when visiting Icelands wells. Such an amazing experience
Mine is worse… Warning: do no open! *giggles*
October 13th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
What a great post for smelly, hopefully one day I’ll get there!
October 13th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
I have never been there but will take your word for the smell. Great photos! Have a good weekend.
October 14th, 2007 at 3:36 am
Wow… I have not seen this before in any of the site I have visited, except National Geographic of course.. haha. This is cool. I have heard that the smell is really unbearable for most people. Nice sharing this week Michael.See you around
October 14th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Wow - this is so neat. I’ve never seen anything like this. It is pretty, exciting and scary all at the same time!
October 14th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Thanks everyone for stopping by and checking out my “smelly” photos.
….Teeni - I hadn’t ever thought of such things as being scary. True, they are very awesome… and can be very deadly for anyone who might fall in.