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The Colorado River started to cut through endless layers of rock, and when it ran into Horseshoe Bend, it creates this natural, sculptural landscape. The river eventually went around it, and now there is a 270-degree bend in the river which created the now-famous horseshoe shape. The sheer Cliff walls are made of Navajo Sandstone, a particularly dense type of sandstone. In the process of erosion, the sandstone acted as a natural barrier, forcing the water to make a sharp bend in the river thorough softer rocks.
Zoomed in for this long exposure there in the early morning light. The Snake River was a peaceful place to be on this morning.
4609 and 4605 twist through the bends between between Almoola and Briaba, working hard with loaded Bowen Rail coal train BA05 from the Carmichael Mine in Queensland’s Galilee Basin, to NQXT (North Queensland Export Terminal) for export.
The 4600 class are part of the Progress Rail EMD GT46C-ACe Gen III locomotives, imported to Australia from the United States.
Tuesday 19th July 2022
For most of it's short course, the Oldeelva River flows nearly straight and rapidly down the Oldedalen Valley from Oldevatnet Lake to where it empties into Nordfjorden at the village of Olden, Norway. But in this area, it flattens out and and makes a sharp double bend like an S. There is a marshy area to the side of the boardwalk on the left.
This is the sky and reflection in the wider view that the beaver in the previous post came swimming through.
I call this s-curve in the Spaulding Drain of the Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge the "Heron Bend". When the light and sky are right, it makes for a compelling look, as taken on July 22, 2023.
On a frosty Hoarfrost filled day, the daily M338 manifest train EB out of Waterloo, Iowa rounds the bend at Osage Rd enroute to Kirk Yard in Gary, IN
A moment before sunrise, Mt. Moran is reflected in the still water at Oxbow Bend in the Teton Range of Wyoming.
Here is another image from the US that has probably been shot a trillion times, but for a reason. During our two days in Page, we spend both sunsets at the famous Horseshoe Bend as it is just so close. As we arrived at the large parking lot (which was not there a few years ago according to my girlfriend), we payed the fee and started the short hike to the viewpoint, or should I rather say viewing platform. Of course, there were a lot of people there, and some of them were pretty rude. I especially remember one woman who stood right next to us for a few minutes and then walked away. When the sun was almost on the horizon, another woman asked us if she could quickly take a photo, and when we made room for her, the other woman came back and claimed she had been waiting there for 15 minutes and hadn’t had a chance to take a single photo. We just told her that wasn't true, but she didn't care, and she just pushed her way to the front. Anyway, we all managed to get some images, although the experience wasn’t as enjoyable which is also the reason why I shot all exposure brackets handheld and didn’t even touch my tripod.
When we got back to the parking lot, we found a little rubber duck on our car, and I thought maybe someone had lost it or thought we’d lost it and had left it there. Since we didn’t want to throw it away, we took it with us, and back at our lodging, we were still puzzling over it and asked Google. As it turned out, we’d been “Jeep-ducked” which is a thing among Jeep owners who leave rubber ducks on other Jeeps, in this case on our Jeep Wrangler. From that point on, Dougy - as we called him - joined us on our journey and earned a special place in Elbert, which - according to our keychain - was the name of our car. On our second evening in Page, we decided to visit Horseshoe Bend again, but this time the sunrise was less spectacular and therefore we just enjoyed the view without taking many images and were happy that we got a few good ones the day before. I hope you like it!
this is on the banks of Wastwater and i can tell you these bikers didn't bomb along it like you would think...they sauntered actually.
We saw less than a dozen people this day up there.
Bet its been a tad different this week!!
If you have been "lucky enough" to have viewed the western, "Fort Apache" (John Wayne-Henry Fonda), there is a scene in the movie overlooking Horseshoe Bend where Wayne, and Pedro Armendariz share a drink of whiskey and then (Wayne) throws an empty liquor bottle into the Bend.
So much for litter control. Ha
I was going through some older photos, and found this one i took in New Zealand last year.
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Bend in the Vrbas canyon next to the road
Stitched together from multiple images using Hugin panorama