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Balanced Rock, one of the most iconic features in the park, stands a staggering 128 feet (39m) tall. While this formation may appear to be an epic balancing act, it’s actually not balanced at all. The slick rock boulder of Entrada Sandstone sits attached to its eroding pedestal of Dewey Bridge mudstone. The exposure of these two rock strata layers are ideal for the formation of arches and balanced rocks.
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nice to walk on it, we just have to find it
May 7, pitch black night at 4 am with 18.5% waning crescent to show up in about 2.5 hours. No light painting is allowed in Arches National park so I enjoyed the beauty of the Balanced Rock as presented by mother nature against the one and only Way. I was amused to see that the core was starting just above the light supplied by taxpayers in Moab. A few clouds were keeping me company, shooting stars just passing by in a hurry to catch the burn.
Nice and warm, plenty of time for a pano but also for admiring the core of the Milky Way
[18mm, 8x sky frames, ISO 8000, f/2.8, 20 sec, 6x foreground frames, ISO 20000, f/2.8, 25 sec]
Balanced Rock and other nearby formations in Arches National Park. If you are not familiar with the size of these rock features, look for the people on the trail on the left and right for scale. Balanced Rock is 128 feet high.
We spent the last September weekend at Balls 29, a big experimental rocket launch event in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada - the same place where Burning Man takes place. On Sunday morning we went to see the Fly Geyser nature wonder, located in the Fly Ranch adjacent to the playa. The Burning Man Project bought the 3,800 acres ranch in 2016. Thank you Will Roger to show us around the private lands at sunrise! Will lives now in nearby Gerlach, and is one of the 6 founders of Burning Man.
The Fly Geyser is the result of man-made drilling in 1916 when water well drilling accidentally penetrated a geothermal source. When geothermal water at close to boiling point was found, the well was abandoned, and a calcium carbonate structure formed over time. The structure changes shape over time. The geyser contains thermophilic algae, which flourish in moist, hot environments, resulting in multiple hues of green and red, coloring the rocks.
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A pair of black-winged stilts (himantopus himantopus), both standing on one leg, I photographed near Panama, in Sri Lanka. These birds are renown for their very long legs - but their still water reflections give the illusion of impossibly long limbs. The bird on the left is a male, displaying the reason for the species' name; by contrast, the female, on the right, has a brownish wings. More at "Colin Pacitti Wildlife Photography & Fishing Travels" - www.colin-pacitti.com.
Male Four-spotted Chaser balanced on a stick ;-)
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Seen in the nature-sanctuary "Tister Bauernmoor" near Sittensen (between Bremen and Hamburg) - Niedersachsen - Germany.
Männlicher Vierfleck ausbalanciert auf einem Ast ;-)
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Gesehen im Naturschutzgebiet "Tister Bauernmoor" bei Sittensen (zwischen Bremen und Hamburg) - Niedersachsen.
This is not an image constructed in Photoshop. My son-in-law likes building this kind of tricky balanced stone structures, so he built this one on our hike in Algonquin provincial park.
Wishing you to find and keep your balance between staying safe and enjoying your life in these tricky Covid times!
Unlikely. Ephemeral. Precarious. Balanced. How did this come to be? It was less than a foot tall, but it stopped me in my tracks.
I saw this little formation on a hike to see the lemniscate (previous post) and was immediately reminded of my paternal grandfather Sidney Mitton and his love of spinning tops. As a youngster, he became proficient with "throwing tops" and even participated in competitions. I remember him showing me how to wind the string around the top and throw it so it landed properly, spinning. He gave me several of his tops when I was a youngster.
This little raccoon was balancing himself on the branch really well while sleeping, until the small branch broke and he woke up really testy.
One of the iconic rock formations in Arches National Park stands 128 feet tall. The remains of another similar rock formation which fell in 1975 can be seen on the right.
For the Macro Mondays theme: Styling Food on a Fork
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Balanced - A young Bobcat rests against the mustard flowers. I thought the yellows balanced the greens in the background nicely. Always nice when things work out like that in nature!
Species: Bobcat (Lynx rufus)
Location: California, USA
Equipment: Canon EOS R3 + RF 200-800mm IS
Settings: 1/100s, ISO: 2500, f/9 @707mm, Handheld, Electronic Shutter
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area - Lee's Ferry, Arizona.
A big boulder rolled down from the nearby cliff to a stop on this pedestal made of softer rock. Since the pedestal is eroding away at a faster pace, the boulder will topple again before it, too, will be broken down by weathering.
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