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Be yourself, hide nothing, so that others can be with you.
It is only then that you find your true self.
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The red sandstone cliffs take spectacular shapes: columns, swags, towers, corbels, funnels, sawteeth, sinkholes, potholes offer a constant vision of wonder to the eye. This is sedimentary rock, 99% quartz covered with a thin layer of iron oxide, and it is this latter which gives the stone its reddish colour.
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:::: Early Morning Reddish Sandstone !, Iles de la Madeleine, QuĆ©bec, Canada. Copyright Ā© 2010 GaĆ«tan Bourque. All rights reserved. Use without permission is illegal.
A nameless bluff in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
This photo was taken by a Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera with a Carl Zeiss Distagon 1:4 f=50mm lens and Zenza Bronica 67mm SY48ā¢2C(Y2) filter using Adox CHS 100 ART film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
see more pictures from this journey in the album www.flickr.com/photos/noluck/albums/72177720326755888
Arches National Park
Most of the formations at Arches are made of soft red sandstone deposited 150 million years ago. Much later, groundwater began to dissolve the underlying salt deposits. The sandstone domes collapsed and weathered into a maze of vertical rock slabs called "fins." Sections of these slender walls eventually wore through, creating the spectacular rock sculptures that visitors to Arches see today. Source: travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/national-parks/arche...
As the sun rose higher the colour faded from the clouds and the light bathed the rocks. I returned to my favourite composition [struggling to find much else] I liked the row of stones pointing to the sun and the textures highlighted.
Wild plants find footholds among shale and sandstone ruins, symbolizing nature's conquest of the 17th-century mission at Quarai, abandoned in 1677.
Quarai No. 6 in my Salinas Pueblo Missions album.
Arriving at night, the conditions that greeted us on our first morning in Inverpolly/Assynt certainly weren't welcoming but there was plenty of drama. The prevalent rock type of the area is Torridonian sandstone, it formed more than a billion years ago.
(Trim off bottom).. This is 'Oddicombe'.. beach.. This 5,000 tonne rock fall happened back in early 2010.. This section of beach was closed back in 2002 because of the cliffs instability..
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During my four-day loss of internet service, I decided I had enough images to start another collection, Shooting Sandstone.
From San Francisco to San Diego, I have shot sandstone, cliffs, rocks, formations, caves, whatever.
Going through the images and picking the best was something I have been thinking about for a while now. Thanks to AT&T, I finally had time.
Along the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon, somewhere near the confluence with the Little Colorado.
just back from a great trip out west... hit several national parks and had a blast. This is a shot of Antelope Canyon in Arizona with an HDR and BW slide. HSS
Cliff detail overlooking the Jamison valley. Sorry, I seem to be stuck on cliffs lately.
Shot with a 70-210mm A Series lens from the 1980's
The Narrows, Zion National Park, Utah.
The deeper you hike (or rather wade) into the Narrows, the narrower and steeper the walls of the canyon get and there is less direct light. However, the sandstone beautifully reflects sunlight and supplies very photogenic warm, soft light in parts of the canyon. I really love this hike and keep coming back for more every year.
Tech Info:
Nikon D800E, Nikkor AF-S 16-35mm f/4G ED VR, Nikon CPL filter.
Post-processed in Lr 5.7 and Ps CS6.
This is an image of Sandstone Falls from the shoreline where I set up to get a few shots of this wonderful falls. On the opposite shoreline there were some Autumn colors still there and in the image you can also see the train tracks above the bank of the river. These are the largest falls in West Virginia, not in height but in width as they are over 1,88 feet wide at its crest. Sweet!!!
Sandstone Falls, New River
New River
New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, WV
New River
New River Gorge National River
Raleigh County, West Virginia
This is a small portion of Sandstone Falls, which stretch some 1,500 feet across the New River, north of Hinton and south of I-64; the falls are accessed on the west side of the river by taking route 26 north from Hinton. This shot is from a session of the New River Gorge photography workshop (Randall Sanger Photography) last spring. The site was an island, and getting there entailed crossing three small channels on stepping stones -- something I would not attempt on my own. Todd Williams and Randy offered much-appreciated assistance -- either a helping hand, or taking my camera gear so nothing valuable would be harmed if I fell in.
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Cliff in a side canyon of Lake Powell, probably Moqui Canyon. This ancient, complex pattern of sandstone deposition and erosion has been revealed by more recent erosion, probably in the past 5 million years, as the Colorado River cut its channel. A severe crop of the lower left is shown in another image.
At many spots on the Vermilion Cliffs, portions of the Navajo sandstone look like they were sliced with a knifeānot literally, but appearing so. How this happens I am not sure. It may be a result of faulting, fracture or slumping. Whatever happened, I cannot see it occurring when the sand was still soft and unconsolidated. Notice, too, the lack of detritus at the base of the flat portion. Perhaps someone would like to offer a hypothesis.
I've seen this phenomenon near The Wave, northeast of Steamboat Rock, and a few other places. This example is at the Lost City. I have also noticed a number of parallel fractures crossing the northern Paria Plateau (many obvious on Google Earth), but they are not aligned with the four "crack" faults intersecting the canyon.