Yellowstone Photo Double

Reading through my blogroll today, I came across a post Moose Peterson wrote about Some Like it Hot!. This is a new book by Susan Neider that focuses on the thermals in Yellowstone National park. As soon as I saw the cover image, I recognized the subject matter. It struck me that I’ve made a very similar photograph. I quickly dug through my Yellowstone images, and found the same view in my photostream on Flickr.

Here’s the cover for Susan Neider’s book and a crop of my image side by side:

At two different points in time, Susan and I must have stood in almost the exact same place and pointed our cameras in almost the exact same way. Susan’s angle of view is from a bit lower than my own, and the time of day is quite different as you can see from the shadows, but the similarities are striking, indeed. More interesting are the small differences in the colorations in the mineral deposits. I wonder what the time delta is between these two shots.

Pretty funny. Nice photo Susan! I hope the book (available at Amazon) does well.