Daniel Viñe fotografia
White Pocket
It was our second day in White Pocket, that place that seems not to belong to this planet. Just before sunset, with the light starting to become soft and enveloping, I decided to approach one of the most iconic elements of the place.
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I had seen it in many photos before, but I wanted to portray it in a different way. So I mounted @brightin.star's 8mm ultra wide-angle lens and laid directly over the rock formations to exaggerate the textures, the lines and that almost dreamlike perspective that the terrain draws.⠀
White Pocket is one of those places where you don't want to waste a second adjusting the tripod. Here you shoot instinctively, almost breathing the landscape, trying to absorb it all.
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What makes White Pocket special is not only its otherworldly appearance, but its unique geological history. These white sandstone formations, with reddish veins and wavy lines, originated about 190 million years ago, during the Jurassic. The site is composed mostly of Navajo Sandstone, a rock formed from ancient fossilized dunes. The characteristic folding and twisting of its surface is due to unusual deformation caused by hydration of underlying layers of clay, which caused the upper sands to shift and deform in an almost sculptural manner.
White Pocket
It was our second day in White Pocket, that place that seems not to belong to this planet. Just before sunset, with the light starting to become soft and enveloping, I decided to approach one of the most iconic elements of the place.
⠀
I had seen it in many photos before, but I wanted to portray it in a different way. So I mounted @brightin.star's 8mm ultra wide-angle lens and laid directly over the rock formations to exaggerate the textures, the lines and that almost dreamlike perspective that the terrain draws.⠀
White Pocket is one of those places where you don't want to waste a second adjusting the tripod. Here you shoot instinctively, almost breathing the landscape, trying to absorb it all.
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What makes White Pocket special is not only its otherworldly appearance, but its unique geological history. These white sandstone formations, with reddish veins and wavy lines, originated about 190 million years ago, during the Jurassic. The site is composed mostly of Navajo Sandstone, a rock formed from ancient fossilized dunes. The characteristic folding and twisting of its surface is due to unusual deformation caused by hydration of underlying layers of clay, which caused the upper sands to shift and deform in an almost sculptural manner.