Spring photos

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Grand Prismatic Springs brilliantly colored waters are the result of thermophilic cyanobacteria and algae.  Midway Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Grand Prismatic Springs brilliantly colored waters are the result of thermophilic cyanobacteria and algae. Midway Geyser Basin.
Location: Midway Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07266  
Steam rises from the travertine terraces of New Blue Spring, part of the Mammoth Hot Springs complex, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Steam rises from the travertine terraces of New Blue Spring, part of the Mammoth Hot Springs complex.
Location: Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07276  
Steam rises from the travertine terraces of New Blue Spring, part of the Mammoth Hot Springs complex, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Steam rises from the travertine terraces of New Blue Spring, part of the Mammoth Hot Springs complex.
Location: Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07277  
Steam rises from the travertine terraces of New Blue Spring, part of the Mammoth Hot Springs complex, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Steam rises from the travertine terraces of New Blue Spring, part of the Mammoth Hot Springs complex.
Location: Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07278  
Steam rises from the travertine terraces of New Blue Spring, part of the Mammoth Hot Springs complex, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Steam rises from the travertine terraces of New Blue Spring, part of the Mammoth Hot Springs complex.
Location: Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07279  
Steam rises from the travertine terraces of New Blue Spring, part of the Mammoth Hot Springs complex, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Steam rises from the travertine terraces of New Blue Spring, part of the Mammoth Hot Springs complex.
Location: Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07280  
Steam rises from the travertine terraces of New Blue Spring, part of the Mammoth Hot Springs complex, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Steam rises from the travertine terraces of New Blue Spring, part of the Mammoth Hot Springs complex.
Location: Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07281  
Steam rises from the travertine terraces of New Blue Spring, part of the Mammoth Hot Springs complex, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Steam rises from the travertine terraces of New Blue Spring, part of the Mammoth Hot Springs complex.
Location: Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07282  
Steam rises from the travertine terraces of New Blue Spring, part of the Mammoth Hot Springs complex, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Steam rises from the travertine terraces of New Blue Spring, part of the Mammoth Hot Springs complex.
Location: Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07283  
Orange Spring Mound.  Many years of mineral deposition has built up Orange Spring Mound, part of the Mammoth Hot Springs complex, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Orange Spring Mound. Many years of mineral deposition has built up Orange Spring Mound, part of the Mammoth Hot Springs complex.
Location: Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07284  
Detail showing mineral deposition and thermophilic cyanobacteria and algae, Orange Spring Mound, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Detail showing mineral deposition and thermophilic cyanobacteria and algae, Orange Spring Mound.
Location: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07285  
Detail showing mineral deposition and thermophilic cyanobacteria and algae, Orange Spring Mound, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Detail showing mineral deposition and thermophilic cyanobacteria and algae, Orange Spring Mound.
Location: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07286  
Detail showing mineral deposition and thermophilic cyanobacteria and algae, Orange Spring Mound, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Detail showing mineral deposition and thermophilic cyanobacteria and algae, Orange Spring Mound.
Location: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07287  
Detail showing mineral deposition and thermophilic cyanobacteria and algae, Orange Spring Mound, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Detail showing mineral deposition and thermophilic cyanobacteria and algae, Orange Spring Mound.
Location: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07288  
A sign warns Yellowstone visitors to beware of geysers, hot springs and superheated pools. Occasionally, park visitors are injured or killed falling into these dangerous geothermal features, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
A sign warns Yellowstone visitors to beware of geysers, hot springs and superheated pools. Occasionally, park visitors are injured or killed falling into these dangerous geothermal features.
Location: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07301  
Emerald Pools vibrant colors are caused by themophilic (heat-loving) cyanobacteria and algae.  As the temperature of the pool decreases towards its edges, the colors tend to oranges and yellow.  Black Sand Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Emerald Pools vibrant colors are caused by themophilic (heat-loving) cyanobacteria and algae. As the temperature of the pool decreases towards its edges, the colors tend to oranges and yellow. Black Sand Basin.
Location: Black Sand Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07302  
Rainbow Pool, a broad (50 foot diam) heated pool in Black Sand Basin, will rarely erupt. Usually it is calm and mildly overflowing, allowing colorful thermophilic cyanobacteria and algae to grow around its edges, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Rainbow Pool, a broad (50 foot diam) heated pool in Black Sand Basin, will rarely erupt. Usually it is calm and mildly overflowing, allowing colorful thermophilic cyanobacteria and algae to grow around its edges.
Location: Black Sand Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07303  
The Artist Paint Pots area of Yellowstone National Park holds steaming pools, mud pots (roiling mud mixed with sulfuric acid and steam) and paint pots (mud pots colored with dissolved minerals)
The Artist Paint Pots area of Yellowstone National Park holds steaming pools, mud pots (roiling mud mixed with sulfuric acid and steam) and paint pots (mud pots colored with dissolved minerals).
Location: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07304  
The Artist Paint Pots area of Yellowstone National Park holds steaming pools, mud pots (roiling mud mixed with sulfuric acid and steam) and paint pots (mud pots colored with dissolved minerals)
The Artist Paint Pots area of Yellowstone National Park holds steaming pools, mud pots (roiling mud mixed with sulfuric acid and steam) and paint pots (mud pots colored with dissolved minerals).
Location: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07305  
The Artist Paint Pots area of Yellowstone National Park holds steaming pools, mud pots (roiling mud mixed with sulfuric acid and steam) and paint pots (mud pots colored with dissolved minerals)
The Artist Paint Pots area of Yellowstone National Park holds steaming pools, mud pots (roiling mud mixed with sulfuric acid and steam) and paint pots (mud pots colored with dissolved minerals).
Location: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07306  
The Artist Paint Pots area of Yellowstone National Park holds steaming pools, mud pots (roiling mud mixed with sulfuric acid and steam) and paint pots (mud pots colored with dissolved minerals)
The Artist Paint Pots area of Yellowstone National Park holds steaming pools, mud pots (roiling mud mixed with sulfuric acid and steam) and paint pots (mud pots colored with dissolved minerals).
Location: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07307  
Dragons Mouth hot spring is a hot spring fronted by a pool churned by steam, carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide vapors roiling up through the pool formed in the springs cavernous mouth.  Mud Volcano area, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Dragons Mouth hot spring is a hot spring fronted by a pool churned by steam, carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide vapors roiling up through the pool formed in the springs cavernous mouth. Mud Volcano area.
Location: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07311  
Terrace Spring near Madison Junction, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Terrace Spring near Madison Junction.
Location: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07313  
Unidentified hot spring, Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Unidentified hot spring.
Location: Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07314  
Unidentified hot spring, Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Unidentified hot spring.
Location: Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 07315  
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