Picture of the Moment - Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park

Sometimes circumstances make all the difference. I took this picture the day after I captured Echinus Geyser in similar conditions. It's amazing what a point-and-click camera can do when you luck into good lighting. Until it erupts again and wipes out human civilization, Yellowstone is a fantastic place. After that it won't be so popular.

May 1992. Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA. Hot springs over terraces of travertine (rapidly precipitated calcium carbonate deposited by mineral springs).

Pictures of the Moment - February 3, 2014

Echinus geyser, the world's largest known acid-water geyser, May 1992. Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Park County, Wyoming. It was a spur-of-the-moment weekend trip from my work base in Helena, Montana and I was camping with a small, $5 pup tent I'd had since grade school. The next morning I work up half frozen under more than 6 inches of new snow and a collapsed tent. That's living.

This photo proves that anyone can take a decent photograph with the right lighting and a point-and-shoot camera.