When we took our daughter to BYU Idaho to take a tour of the college we decided to take a detour to Yellowstone. We went to all the regular places. I had the perfect location scouted out when all of a sudden we were evacuated. The rangers didn't think we should be near a large herd of buffalos. So they moved the entire crowd to the other side. This was the shot.

The Specs
iso 200
34mm
f/18
1/250s

I like the solid blue sky against the water spout.
I like the contrast between the forest and the grass.
I like having Old Faithful centered.
I would like to take this photo at sunset.

For this photo I used a tripod for the steady shot. I had a polarizing filter for a nice blue sky. When I processed the photo I took it into CS3 and ran Topaz Clean and Topaz Simplify to give the photo the look of a painting.

Let me know what you think.

~wr~