"Rock Star", Wasp Head
Photo taken at Wasp Head, on the NSW south coast. The “star of the show” is obviously the unique creeping petrified magma (I think), which I’ve tried to highlight with subtle dodging and burning. Underneath the petrified magma (now basalt) is a unique feature called “boxworks” (in the lower part of the photo). Iron and silica are taken into solution by groundwater, transported, and precipitated into joints (cracks). The silica and iron make the joints harder than the surrounding sandstone which is gradually weathered away, leaving the chocolate-brown iron-silica joints standing up to make what looks like a “chocolate box” (the term coined by Brett Wood on recent photography workshop with him and Lisa). Suspect the erosion is pretty slow, so should still be the same by the time I leave this earth. Cheers all.
"Rock Star", Wasp Head
Photo taken at Wasp Head, on the NSW south coast. The “star of the show” is obviously the unique creeping petrified magma (I think), which I’ve tried to highlight with subtle dodging and burning. Underneath the petrified magma (now basalt) is a unique feature called “boxworks” (in the lower part of the photo). Iron and silica are taken into solution by groundwater, transported, and precipitated into joints (cracks). The silica and iron make the joints harder than the surrounding sandstone which is gradually weathered away, leaving the chocolate-brown iron-silica joints standing up to make what looks like a “chocolate box” (the term coined by Brett Wood on recent photography workshop with him and Lisa). Suspect the erosion is pretty slow, so should still be the same by the time I leave this earth. Cheers all.