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Edit Challenge #3: Fountain Geyser

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Andrea B.:
I am late responding to the Edit Challenge because I have just now returned from a sojourn in Yellowstone National Park where being online was not possible unless one wished to fork over $10/day for the privilege. I decided not to do this because being internet-free for a few days seemed like it might be a good thing to try.

My observation about this No Net Interlude was that I did not miss reading "the News" to keep up with the tragic state of world affairs, however I desperately wanted to look up topics in Wikipedia about bison, geysers, thermal springs and other Yellowstone related phenomena. Curiosity can be so easily satisfied these days, can't it?  :D

I will get an Edit Challenge foto posted very soon after I unpack and unload my filled-up SD cards.

Andrea B.:
Found a good Challenge for you which was already off loaded onto my laptop.

So, here are four of my tourist snapshots from Yellowstone National Park showing the Fountain Geyser erupting - two landscape and two portrait snaps. These fotos were made with the Df and the 24-70/2.8 AFS. If anyone tells you to leave the zoom at home when touring National Parks containing geysers and bison, do not listen to them. Zoom is the only way you are going to get anywhere near boiling water and wild animals - especially when you have to travel on a tourist bus and thus cannot carry a tripod with a 600mm prime. "-)

The fotos are a bit underexposed because I frequently manage to knock the Df's Matrix metering setting over onto Spot metering. There is a lot of structure in the clouds and rocks. There is less structure in the boiling hot water and steam from the erupting geyser, but I think it can be enhanced a bit.

So pick one of these files and let's see what you can do with it! Crops, detail enhancement, unusual filters -- anything is permitted.  Can one of these fotos work as a straightforward documentary? Is there an interesting abstraction lurking somewhere?

LINK to Dropbox Zip File:  https://www.dropbox.com/s/qiotw0qptsookrl/FountainGeyser.zip?dl=0

Small versions of the originals are attached.

John Geerts:
Very nice geysers.    I took the last one.   With some detail ;) 

HCS:
I chose the 2nd one, crop and sorta cross processing

Bjørn J:
I chose the second one - the hand does it all

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