Canyonlines
A brush of brighter light strikes to each side of a sharper ridge and highlights the delicate curving lines and textures of Rattlesnake Slot Canyon, near Page, Arizona.
I really enjoy taking detail and texture shots when I'm out with the camera, though I don't often end up posting those images for some reason. In these wonderful red sandstone slot canyons of the American southwest, interesting details and plays of light are everywhere among the sinuous striations exposed in the narrow canyon walls. Sky Matthews and I were lucky the morning I took this shot to be one of only a half dozen or so people in the whole of Rattlesnake Canyon, so we had plenty of time to really look around and focus on whatever features caught our interest--a rare experience for me compared to my visits to some of the other, much more well-known, and crowded, slot canyons near Page.
Rattlesnake Canyon gets quite narrow in places, much more so than in the public sections of the nearby Antelope Slot Canyons, and it also has all these cool little dimples and bumps in the walls in many places (a few small bumps are visible in this image). I'm not completely sure, but I believe those bumps are concretions of iron oxide that, once the sandstone around them fully erodes away and the little part-iron spheres fall free, are known as "Moqui marbles", which you often see scattered anomalously on the desert slickrock throughout the southwest.
Thanks for viewing!
Canyonlines
A brush of brighter light strikes to each side of a sharper ridge and highlights the delicate curving lines and textures of Rattlesnake Slot Canyon, near Page, Arizona.
I really enjoy taking detail and texture shots when I'm out with the camera, though I don't often end up posting those images for some reason. In these wonderful red sandstone slot canyons of the American southwest, interesting details and plays of light are everywhere among the sinuous striations exposed in the narrow canyon walls. Sky Matthews and I were lucky the morning I took this shot to be one of only a half dozen or so people in the whole of Rattlesnake Canyon, so we had plenty of time to really look around and focus on whatever features caught our interest--a rare experience for me compared to my visits to some of the other, much more well-known, and crowded, slot canyons near Page.
Rattlesnake Canyon gets quite narrow in places, much more so than in the public sections of the nearby Antelope Slot Canyons, and it also has all these cool little dimples and bumps in the walls in many places (a few small bumps are visible in this image). I'm not completely sure, but I believe those bumps are concretions of iron oxide that, once the sandstone around them fully erodes away and the little part-iron spheres fall free, are known as "Moqui marbles", which you often see scattered anomalously on the desert slickrock throughout the southwest.
Thanks for viewing!