Wilderness Series - INTO THIN AIR - Images of atmospheric envelopes of air and light.

The cycle of appearance & disappearance of landscape elements within specific geographies and terrains.

All photographs & text © 2012 -present Brent McCullough. All Rights Reserved.

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Morning Air

Artwork ID # 2306-39125-53.

" So calm, so calm.../ At the edge of gray silken waters, / Like an afternoon with Monet. "

- " Becoming the Elk Now " from "Shards of Yellowstone " a work of poems created in 1991 - 1993 by Yellowstone National Park " writer-in-residence Katya Williamson.

In a landscape unique on this planet a deep mist is sliding by, right to left, past an overflow channel in the Norris Geyser Basin. It brings to mind a painting by Impressionist master Claude Monet. Suddenly there was startlingly clear blue sky radiating bright light which revealed the colors of lime-green cyanidium algae and orange cyanobacteria alive inside the groundwater heated by geothermal activity .

Norris Basin Wyoming Yellowstone National Park mist algae geothermal blue green blue sky calmness flowing Monet languidness steam silence limegreen orange cyanidium algae cyanobacteria overflow channel acidic water