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THE PURGATORY | Main Terraces, Mammoth Hot Spring, Yellowstone National Park | June 12, 2015
Timing and luck. This plays a huge factor in capturing epic landscape photos, that extra ingredient of moment which makes your photo unique and hard to replicate. From that day’s forecast a thunderstorm was coming in the afternoon and would clear in the night. We knew these moments make for a colorful sunset so we proceeded to the Main terraces of Mammoth Hot springs in Yellowstone National Park. We got there with little light as huge storm clouds started moving in from the west. Lightning was appearing from time to time and opted to capture those first. As the minutes pass by, huge black clouds were moving fast towards the east and I notice they were forming some unique shapes.
Rain started pouring; this didn’t stop me from photographing the scene, it was scary like a science fiction movie about the ends of the earth. At one point, I hesitated in going back the car. Nobody was left in the upper terraces except our group. Not only rain but we had to worry about being struck by lightning.
That afternoon went on like forever, in just a few hours I have experienced hail, lightning, double rainbows and a blazing sunset. Truly this image will speak about that moment.
This is not HDR nor an over tonal contrasted photo.
Edited by JimFox on Jul 10, 2015 at 12:32 PM · View previous versions
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