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Taken walking down from Beeston Castle to the Shropshire Union canal near the end of our walk. A few minutes later, the heavens opened and icy rain fell upon us!
The sandstone on Gabriola Island has provided the quarried stone for many buildings in past years.
The main rocks exposed on Gabriola's surface are sandstone and shale. Differential erosion of relatively soft shales and relatively hard sandstones helped create cliffs, points, and bays along Gabriola's shoreline. Gabriola and surrounding islands have more than 70 known petroglyphs - sandstone carvings, some of which may be as old as 2,000 years or more.
Arches National Park has been one of my favorite places to visit. I love the variety of hikes, and the adventure that comes with them - discovering arches that have been carved from sandstone.
Pictured are sandstone fins found along the Primitive Loop in Devil's Garden, before weaknesses in the sandstone break away and make an arch. It's my favorite place to hike in the park.
A close, ultra-wide view of the front of St Mary of the Presentation Catholic Church in Mudgee, during twilight on our first night there.
Normally I am reluctant to deliberately introduce perspective distortion into my architectural images, but occasionally it is fun to break the 'rules' and have a bit of over-the-top fun with quirky angles.
From the Elemental Collection, Sandstone Dress-Earth Element
(includes copy of original art)
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i put a lot of effort into this, probably more than it's worth considering it's nothing crazy-special, but it's been probably close to 30hrs of effort (without including driving time), 4 different unique localities visited, and this is pretty much EXACTLY what i imagined when i dreamed it up... some time ago i saw someone put up a photo of a C. pyrrhus on sandstone in NV, USA, thought "hey, that's kinda unique" (C. pyrrhus are lithophiles but seemingly strongly prefer granite and other metamorphic rock) and immediately i knew i had to find a place to do that in CA. scouted literature for sandstone formations, looked into where they crop out, spent a lot of time figuring out accessibility, and then spent a decent amount of effort in-habitat looking. finally, i proved it out. this animal was posted up on a rock made of carbonate-cemented sandstone (seen in image), in an area with a lot of (almost exclusively) that, red and tan sedimentary sandstones, mud hills, and sandstone fossil deposits. pretty unique looking for a SoCal pyrrhus considering the lack of gray base color or black speckling. pretty confident it was not just coincidence either because less than 400m away was another pyrrhus that looked similar, just more red, but 10km away in the same mountain range i've seen 1 that looked more typically-SoCal. it's a sandstone-colored speck, through and true. i still have high hopes for finding disjunct populations of sandstone-colored C. pyrrhus in 3 other spots in both CA border Cos, and just on sandstone in 1 more, but this one settled it; NV got nothing on us.
sandstone speck, seen on Kumeyaay and Kwapa land.
Is it just me (probably!) or can anyone else see the rocks forming a large animal normally seen "in the mist"?
One of a set of images taken by Geoff Cooke when he hosted the Geoff's Trains group at the Stars of Sandstone Festival in April 2019. Copyright Geoff Cooke. Please do not use without permission.
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In 2008, Geoff's Trains visited Sandstone for a three day charter. One morning session was with two NGG16 Garratts, numbers 113 and 153,
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Two ex- Beira Railways Lawley 4-4-0's climb out of Grootdraai, heading for Hoekfontein Station.
One of a set of images taken by Geoff Cooke when he hosted the Geoff's Trains group at the Stars of Sandstone Festival in April 2019. Copyright Geoff Cooke. Please do not use without permission.
Penstemon palmeri var. palmeri, Sandstone Quarry Trail, Red Rocks National Recreation Area, Spring Mountains, Clark Co., NV, 28 Apr 2018.
A larger perspective of the shoreline with the sandstone bluffs facing the frozen Lake Superior. The first of the frozen waterfalls is seen here with its orange hue, caused by fine grains of sandstone imbedded in the ice.
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On March 3, 2014, I had the delight of visiting the Ice Caves of northern Wisconsin.
The Apostle Islands Ice Caves have made national and international news this winter because of the rare opportunity to walk onto frozen Lake Superior and hike the mile to the caves on the shoreline. This happens every six to ten years or so, depending on the temperatures and their duration, making it safe to walk onto Lake Superior.
sandston amazes me... this was a beautiful formation in the Paria wilderness. Best if viewed in lightroom.
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Was traveling on the south coast of Iceland a couple of weeks ago and took this shot of a rock on the shore by Vík. That´s Reynisdrangar in the backround. It was pretty windy that day, the surf was very strong and I took a couple of "normal" landscape shots of it, but this shot just appealed a lot more to me.
The facinating layers of Sandstone and Shale which are common place along this part of the Devon and Cornwall coast.
Thousands of years of weather and wear have sculpted this chunk of sandstone into a shape that is similar to a pair of red shoes.
Along Schnebly Hill Road in Sedona, Arizona. Best viewed large on black View On Black
Why there is a scoop of ice cream with whipped cream on top and strawberry syrup running down it in the middle of the desert is a mystery to me. This is such a strange place but I was really struggling with the photography part of it. For one thing, there were some ugly skies (see above), if the sky was good then there were wierd shadows, if the light was good then my composition was ugly...I don't know. This formation is the one I really messed up the picture on - it's such a unique formation but I couldn't seem to take a decent picture of it...oh well, next time. Anyway, I'm posting these so people can see this otherworldly place.
With swirling rock, teepees and brain rock there's no place on earth quite like North Coyote Buttes in Vermillion Cliffs National Monument. Within the swirling rock formation on the left, one can find the world famous Wave formation. This scene illustrates that's there much, much more to see in addition to that iconic formation.
The westernmost hogback is Paleozoic Age Fountain Formation sandstone, originating from an accumulation of sediments that eroded from the Ancestral Rocky Mountains. It is conspicuously red due to oxidation of iron minerals. The central hogback is Permian Age Lyons Formation, which formed from windblown sand and stream deposits following erosion of the Ancestral Rocky Mountains. The easternmost hogback, Cretaceous Age Dakota Sandstone, is composed of Lytle Formation floodplain deposits and Platte Formation beach and shallow ocean deposits.