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Color Conduit

Have you ever wondered how the sandstone around the Colorado Plateau gets all those crazy colors? For those of us who are used to "normal" earthly scenery the place looks like some kind of alien world. Well it turns out those colors actually are alien - they are transported from another galaxy and beamed down into this formation, which apparently serves as some sort of conduit. The colors are then dispersed through underground channels throughout the Colorado Plateau. And I got to witness this amazing phenomenon...that's my story and I'm sticking to it !

 

Finally got around to processing this shot from an afternoon I spent with the immortal Mike Jones and another flickr photographer, Val Guzman, who is an old friend from back in Chicago and was visiting with his family

 

 

 

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Uploaded on September 18, 2010
Taken on September 18, 2010