Granite Mountain from Granite Dells in Prescott, Arizona. Difficult rock climb to get up to this location, but it's definitely a great view.

A short distance from Petrel cove, South Australia.

A small section of a Granite belt of rock with some beautiful shapes and patterns.

This is not a cookie, but a small granite rock formed to a ball by the sea. HMM!

Beautiful scenery along where Granite Creek heads into Watson Lake. Prescott, Arizona.

Late day view into the high country of Northern Yosemite. Mt Conness trying to shake it's cloud cover.

Vedauwoo granite, Vedauwoo, Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming. I was fascinated by the brick-like jointing.

CSX W086 gets ready to tie down on the main at Granite. 5-13-24

Spring storm on the mountains.

I forgot my tripod on this trip so I sat the camera on the tailgate of my truck for the shot. It's a little shaky at the edges, but I think it's good enough.

Looking across Upper Gaylor Lake, with a water level of 10,511' (3,203m), toward the Granite Lakes Basin, ranging up to about 11,200' (3,414m), with one of the Granite Lakes just visible on the far side of the meadow, and massive chunks of granite covering both the mountains and meadows.

Best if viewed large. Found on the North side of Priest Lake, Idaho State. This is during low water. You can bet I'll be right here come next June !!

Three Aspens, Granite. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Three autumn aspen trees standing against a granite wall, Eastern Sierra Nevada.

Those of us who have spent a lot of time in the Sierra — and the story is similar for other locations — gradually accumulate “personal spots” that might not make much of an impression on others but which we greet like old friends each year. Mine include a particular rock outcropping in Tuolumne Meadows, a particular flat rock in the Yosemite backcountry where I’ve frequently placed my cook stove, a small grove of trees nestled in a bend along an Eastern Sierra road, a high and barren lake in the Southern Sierra, and quite a few more. I’ll bet you have a few such places of your own.

This little group of three slender aspen tree set against a jumble of rocks s is one of those spots. It is very accessible, but there’s an excellent chance that if you were nearby you passed without noticing. Yet virtually every autumn I end up stopping and photographing them again. (Yes, there are other photographs of them in my collection.) They are “the same,” yet they are also different every time I visit — the leaves may be green, yellow, a combination, or gone. The light may be intense in the morning or soft and blue in late-day shadows. So I return, and I photograph them again, and I mark another season with each return.

View, discuss, and more at the website: www.gdanmitchell.com/2020/07/31/three-aspens-granite

G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.

Pt Reyes National Seashore

In Yosemite. Half Dome in center, Mt. Watkins on the right, Mt. Starr King the distant steep dome on the far left, Tenaya Canyon far below, Quarter Domes on extreme left. Yosemite Valley is out of sight to the right beyond Watkins. Taken from an eastern spur of Watkins.

Granite formations in the Silent City of Rocks, Cassia County, Idaho. Photographed in 665 nanometer infrared using an infrared modified Canon 20D and rendered in channel inverted, false color infrared.

Somebody had the patience and perseverance to carved an enrance and possibly a whole house through the granite wall of Huashan, China, sacred mountains so inhabited for a lot more than 1000 years, like this entrance most propably.

Granite dominates the geology of the Sierra Nevada. Image was taken on a recent backpacking trip.

This weekend, we took a hike through Granite Dells, up near Prescott Az.

The Dells are bedrock, buried deep in the earth for millions of years, exposed and shaped by weathering.

There are lots of hiking trails through the boulders. We chose the one around Watson Lake, a man made reservoir. And spent some time climbing in and around the maze of boulders at different heights.

The weather was cool, cloudy and at times rainy, but we had rain gear so no problem.

It was a magnificent sight, and I took a lot of snapshots along the way.

A few more views in comments.

Have a good week.

Yosemite, California

We’re standing at the edge of Sentinel Meadow gazing at the lower section of the Yosemite Valley’s north wall of gray granite. The top of the rim is about 3000 feet (900 meters) above the valley floor. A combination of water erosion, the uplift of the Sierra Nevada range, and some heavy polishing by glaciers created the valley.

The granite hills around Maniitsoq, Greenland, are up to three billion years old.

granite boulder, Virgin Gorda, BVI

I do like a granite portal

Early morning at Victor Harbor. Around low tide time at the Granite Island jetty/causeway.

Le granite forme la totalité de la presqu’île de Quiberon. Son âge oscille entre 320 et 300 millions d’années

Granite forms the entire peninsula of Quiberon. Its age oscillates between 320 and 300 million years

Royce Lakes from about 12,300 feet, under a sunset glow. Between the two peaks in the back you can barely make out the white mountains below the puffy white clouds under the Earth shadow.

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Granite Falls, NC.

Mount Isa, QLD.

Bradinopyga geminata

Shiruvani Falls Trail,

Western Ghats

Tamil Nadu, India

Native to India/Sri Lanka they are perfectly camouflaged when on rocks.

stone on buildings, downtown Seattle

"characterized by large, rounded crystals of orthoclase each with a rim of oligoclase" -

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapakivi_granite

Rapakivi album of James St. John - www.flickr.com/photos/jsjgeology/albums/72157645699311539/

my lichen photos by genus - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections/7215762439...

my photos arranged by subject, e.g. mountains - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections

Granite pyramids under the huge pine on the Baltic seashore near Tarkhovka, St. Petersburg

Valle della luna

NS SD40-2 6194 leads a manifest across the Chicago Missouri & Western diamond at Granite City, IL.

View On Black

"Granite Sunset:" Granite boulders in the foreground and Granite Mountain in the distance receive the last light of day during a recent sunset in Prescott.

Granite stairs at the new Federal Courthouse in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Bench for reflecting at cemetery, behind bench, in Granite, Oregon. Just the most peaceful place you could ever wish to be.

Thanks for looking,

Jim

Seen from the McGee Creek Trail, Eastern Sierras

Granite Castle at Perros-Guirec, France

Wall

Stone Mountain Georgia

The Granite Arch at Girraween National Park, Queensland, Australia.

Sighted on Hirtles Beach, takes years to form, looks like a very firm pudding, hard as a rock!

Hirtles Beach, Kingsburg, Nova Scotia

Granite Falls, Morton National Park

New South Wales, Australia

The falls (no water going over when I took the photo though) are around 70m high. Its about a 10 minute drive from our home and nothing North, South or West for literally miles and miles. There's small pockets of rainforest through the bottom of the valley. The bird life is pretty amazing.

Pristine granite mountains, wild flowers, and a cool wind. Spring time has come to Arizona!