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The story behind the photo: Echinus Geyser is a regular
performer at the Norris Geyser Basin. In the back of the basin not
far from Steamboat Geyser, Echinus is a fountain geyser, which sprays its
water in almost every direction. Although it is much smaller than
Grand Geyser, another fountain geyser, it generally erupts on average once
every 45 minutes or so. The picture that Loree and I got generally
didn't come out. There's just a lot of water and steam. Somehow,
it looks a little better as a web image than as a personal photograph.
In some respects, though, this is what one is looking at from up close
on the boardwalk. In other respects, however, much of the truth of
the background is lost, and so it is hard to put the real nature of this
geyser into much perspective.
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