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Sometimes I wonder just how much time and difference there is between the solid or liquid form.
Lake Powell
Waterhole Canyon, Arizona
As always with these landscapes, best seen in lightbox, i.e., click on the expand arrows at upper right.
From last winter's (2024) trip to the Southwest. I'd been wanting to visit one of Arizona's famous slot canyons for ages and finally made it happen this time. It was easily one of the highlights of the trip. Hopefully, it'll be Antelope Canyon next year. These places are truly a wonder.
I hemmed-and-hawed about whether to make this color or B&W. It basically was a flip of the coin.
Shady conditions in the canyons of Zion provided endless opportunities of exploring small winter scenes among the rich red tones of sandstone.
Photo sort of captures the ethereal and contemplative mood. Note the orange sandstone, made of ancient sand dunes, turning back to orange sand (ironically). Also note the jagged mountains with light and shadow play in the background.
"Sandstone Wonders"
Vermilion Cliffs, Arizona, USA
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An amazing visual display of petrified sand dunes at Cottonwood Cove within Coyote Buttes South of the Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness Area. This view is taken within northern Arizona with Utah in the background. These amazing petrified formations are a "must-see," although only accessible via 4WD vehicles. Prints available.
I was away for a few days to attend my 60th high school class reunion in Sandstone, Minnesota. It is a small town and I lived just across the street that was behind me when I took this photo. Grades one through six were on the first floor and 7 through 12 were on the second floor. It has been vacant for many years and that is the reason for the boarded up and broken windows. There have been many attempts to re-purpose this building that is constructed of sandstone rock taken from the local quarry but so far no attempt to do so has succeeded. The right half was built in 1901 and the left half in 1910. It is now fondly referred to as 'The Rock'. I have many good memories of my 12 years in this old building.
To create a piece of art as delicate as this, then hide it away behind and under a bunch of stone... that's talent to spare.
Close-up of the sandstone weathered by the waves rather like sand on a beach at Fleswick. The different layers can be seen by variations of colour.
Sand dunes near Stovepipe Wells, Death Valley National Park, California. If you listen closely, you may hear the lyrics to your favorite pop tune. Or not.
Arches National Park is a national park in eastern Utah, United States. The park is adjacent to the Colorado River, 4 miles (6 km) north of Moab, Utah. More than 2,000 natural sandstone arches are located in the park, including the well-known Delicate Arch, as well as a variety of unique geological resources and formations. The park contains the highest density of natural arches in the world.
Gorgeous late evening light breaking through the tree canopy to light up the River Gelt and it's wonderful sandstone.
Sony A7IV + Sigma 16-28mm f2.8
f6.3 1/13 ISO 800 28mm handheld
The Museum of Natural History is a place you can get lost in (especially if you're Ben Stiller). My favorite part was this one, the Richard Gilder Center for Science, which cost a whopping $465 million to build. It feels like a canyon and the warm sandstone tones are gorgeous!
These sandstone formations are the result of years of abrasive wave action slowly eating away the soft rock along coastal beaches in British Columbia. This is at Roberts Memorial Provincial Park near Nanaimo on south Vancouver Island. The park contains unique sandstone ledges. These ledges are part of the geological heritage of Vancouver Island and represent ancient sea beds. The ledges serve as a haul-out location for sea lions, which can often be spotted basking in the sun in this area.
......a sandstone picture, natural, Queensland Australia, sandstone, untouched other than cut in a slice...
Original size, approx. 60cm x 30cm
To me, I'm on a high plateau looking over the edge down onto a vast plain with herds of buffalo, above the distant mountain range an amazing dust storm swirls about....(?) just a thought!
Well it is still bloomin' windy and there is still no chance for leaves so what to do instead? Head to the beach and build a delicate rock balance and dare it to defy the wind?
The forecast was set to deteriorate by lunchtime so I headed to the coast. The wind was very strong there and my optimism dwindled. I had in mind something like the stack I built at Robin Hood's Bay. That one withstood the wind perhaps this one will?
The tide was due in by lunch so I set to work collecting flat stones and pebbles. I set the camera up first in the vain hope that I might get a picture and started on the construction.
The first effort had a horrendous wobble three-quarter built, the lower few layers were rolling on their pebbles and it soon fell. I tried again and dismantled the next two tries in order to concentrate on stopping it wobbling so much although it was impossible to eliminate entirely.
Always expecting it to topple I added each new layer one at a time until I finally got it done. I thought it might need another layer (I still do looking back at the pictures) but sometimes you can't push it any further. The proverbial last straw.
Now, a bit panicky, as it swayed quite a lot to and fro, I waited for the sun to come out. It needed to be front lit or else the contrast was too strong. As it seems to be with recent luck it there was blue sky either side of where the sun was with a strip of grey cloud right through the middle. It didn't look like there would be any decent light anytime soon.
But despite the nerve jangling wobbling it stayed upright and within half an hour I got all the pictures I wanted. Quite perplexed how it was still standing I thought I would try and capture a time lapse of the incoming tide. I set everything up and sat back and waited.
I looked at my watch - it was 11.30 and the tide would be fully in in 3/4 of an hour. The wind was really cold but I thought I could handle the shivering until the tide arrived. I am not so sure about the sculpture.
What seemed like an age had passed and the tide was still not in. I looked at my watch again and it said 11.30! What? I must have read it as 11.30 when it was 10.30!
Glutton for punishment that I am I couldn't stop the time lapse capture as the sculpture still stood. Sat in my 9 coats and 4 hats I practiced my powers of telekinesis. "Fall over! Fall over! Fall over! That way I can go and get warm!"
It wasn't working.
Still the tide marched in and still the stones wobbled and rocked. Didn't seem like anything could topple it.
As the hypothermia took hold I whispered to myself "just hold on, don't fall asleep, someone will rescue me soon." I took my emergency chocolate bar from my pocket and split it into quarters. "I will have to ration it" I thought "it might be a long time before anyone finds me."
"I am so very cold mummy."
And then it happened. A series of quite violent wobbles lead to its final demise. It sacrificed itself so that I might live.
PS. the lit up look of this photo was done with a reflector not in photoshop.
Navajo Sandstone is one of the rock formations in Zion National Park, Utah.
The range of colors is the results of varying amounts and forms of iron oxide within the rock. The white upper portion of the Navajo is due to lack of iron.
I find these intimate views of sandstone just as compelling as the larger vistas.
This small feature was found in S. Coyote Buttes. The image is the result of four shots blended for DOF.
Up north, along the westcoast of Öland, you will find this.
Hundreds of stapled sandstones along the coast.
The monastery was founded in 1878. The church and most if the buildings of the Abbey complex are built from native sandstone taken from the Abbey's quarry about a mile northeast. The blocks you see here were carved by hand and completed in 1910.
Surface rock that looks to be similar to the red sandstone used to make the five meter Standing stone of Auchencar and some of the stones associated with the Machrie site. This small bay is on the west coast of Arran. There are at least 18 hut circles within the grassland above this cove beach. An ancient cave system hollows into the cliff that restarts a stone's throw to the north. Here, opportunities for natural storm shelter and fire are many. A short walk inland and then north takes you to the string of stone circles and megaliths that step for more than two kilometers in view of the sensual mountain known as the Beinn Bharrain, with the smaller Sail Chalmadale to its right.
On a beach on Hornby Island, BC, Canada.
One suspects, looking at this, that the larger cells at the top are older and that the pattern coarsens with time by progressively losing the separators. Something like a coarsening foam. But maybe not.
This formation is called "tafoni" or "honeycomb weathering".