A man who fell into a hot spring and died at Yellowstone National Park earlier this summer is being remembered by the producers of a nature video series.
SKYGLOW is a project to capture the night sky in timelapse videos, and its producers were filming in the Norris Geyser Basin days before Colin Nathaniel Scott left the boardwalk there and fell into a thermal spring. Now, they are dedicating the end result of their filming, https://vimeo.com/179772650" target="_blank">a timelapse video of Yellowstone, to him.
Emina Becirovic, one of the film’s producers, said while they were filming she noticed the signs warning visitors not to leave the boardwalk and asked about them.
“You know, if people actually go off the boardwalk and fall into these,” said Becirovic.
“And then a couple of days later we saw articles all over the internet explaining that it did happen, and so I kind of felt a great affinity to keep him in our memories.”
Colin Nathaniel Scott was widely criticized for failing to obey those warning signs. Becirovic said many of the online comments she saw were cruel, and that she and her colleagues Harun Mehmedinovic and Gavin Heffernan thought Scott deserved a more dignified remembrance than he received.
“In a lot of the articles that were on the web, I read only terrible things," Becirovic said. "I read people not really sympathizing that this was the death of a person but rather just pointing out things that you never would if you knew this person.”
Becirovic said she hopes she hopes the film and the dedication emphasize the importance of respecting nature and staying on the boardwalk.
