Locations
Yellowstone
Old Faithful
There is no shortage of photographs of Old Faithful, and even though we were staying at the Old Faithful Snow Lodge, it wasn't till day 4 that I motivated myself to get up at 5:00 AM to view a geyser of which only 3 million tourists per year take pictures. Amazingly, there couldn't have been more than a dozen persons at Old Faithful at that time of the morning.
The basic concept is to locate oneself directly behind the geyser and the rising sun. Other photographers also know this so you'll want to get to the geyser early to position yourself. Once the sun breaks the horizon, you'll only have a couple of minutes at most to capture your images. Due to the brightness of the sun flashing through the steam, I tend to open up the exposure by one stop since the scene's brightness will generally cause the cameras exposure meter to make too quick of an exposure.