Beauty in the Round(ed)

Countless millennia of relatively quiet wind, water and chemical erosion reveals an incredible landscape of pleasing tumult at the foot of the sharp, glacier-carved peaks of the Sierra Nevada in southern California.

 

These jumbled and tumbled features of the Alabama Hills are made of the same stuff, to paraphrase Carl Sagan, as the Sierra Nevada's peaks that tower in cloudless skies just beyond the top of the frame here, but with much different stories since their shared hot origins deep in the earth. The glaciations of the relatively-recent past that shaped the highland alpine reaches didn't much reach or endure in the lowlands this far south in North America.

 

I've taken a shot very similar to this before on another morning where weather conditions allowed me to focus my attention more solely on the details of the Alabama Hills rather than being drawn always to include the dramatic high peaks beyond, but I wanted to try to catch it again here appreciating the nice orange-pink morning light that visually brought this amazing landscape to life.

 

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