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All humans have a tendency to be self absorbed. Sometimes we even feel important. That's why a trip to a national park like Arches is good for ones soul.
Stand in one of the arches, like this one which is part of Double Arch, and compare yourself to the work of nature. Think of the thousands of years Mother Nature has worked on this feature and compare it to your short life span. Robert Service wrote, "You life is but a single beat within the heart of time." In a place like this, you begin to know what he meant.
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The impressive Double Arch at Arches National Park in Utah.
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This was one of the highlights of Arches National Park, to be sure. This arch, or pair of arches, is far larger than one might think. The scale is massive. Standing inside is a bit unnerving, realizing that there are tons of unsupported rock above your head.
Overall, I found Arches to be somewhat less impressive than what I was expecting (unlike the Grand Canyon, which was far better than expectation). I guess it's all how you frame it in your mind. Double Arch is pretty incredible, though.
Cove of Caves, Windows Section, Arches National Park, Utah. Double Arch (left) and Archaeologist Cave on the South side of the Cove of Caves in the Windows Area. Cove of Caves is the South and West sides of Elephant Butte, the highest point in the park. Double Arch and Archaeologist Cave were used in the beginning of the film “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”, although the cave interior as shown in the film does not exist. Double Arch is well known, but there are many other features surrounding Elephant Butte.
Seen from the lower parking lot, There are few visual cues of how massive this landscape is, but look for two tiny figures in red and blue on the path who are perhaps a third of the way towards the Double Arch. The formation on the left is known as the Parade of Elephants.
In the Windows Section of Arches National Park.
A 7-photo vertical stitch from under Double Arch, Arches National Park, Utah. This incredible natural arch is formed in Middle Jurassic Entrada Sandstone.
With a nights accommodation so close to the Arches National Park I couldn't resist an early start. Surprisingly I was the first one site, but by the time of this shot there were dozens of others milling around taking in the scene.
The single arch seen here is one of the pair that form the "Double Arch".
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Double Arch is very impressive, but it is surprisingly large when you get up to it. It's hard to believe that this was formed naturally, with a depression and probably some cracks allowing water to seep through, slowly taking material with it.
To me, this was one of the more interesting sights (and sites) in Arches. I chose a very American scene for my Election Day post.
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Big, Intimidating arch, probably my favorite arch. On my two visits to the arch there were surprisingly less visitors to this arch than the nearby windows and turret arches. The arch is a bit hidden from plain sight though so that may have detoured some of the visitors. It was horribly overcast on both my visits, but luckily the sun was casting some nice light through the clouds.
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This is the southern arch of 'Double Arch' at Arches National Park. The arch is massive, 112 feet high and 144 feet across..
If you look closely, you can see blue sky right through a gap. Water has infiltrated below the harder layer of sandstone, this massive arch will become more slender as slabs fall off the bottom. In the end, the whole arch will fail.
The more people I show this to the more answers I get. I wanted to get a weird angle that no one has seen before, but Ive gotten everything from a fisheye shot of the arch to the more creative answers " looking through the leg holes of a pair of underwear" Let me know what your thoughts are.
I shot half of Double Arch, does that make this single arch? Lol A busy but less shot composition from Double Arch in the Red River Gorge. We had about 1 minute of color yesterday, but still a great day out exploring with the lads.
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I took this photo of Double Arch fromthe North Window Arch with my telephoto lens.
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This view, not from a cave but actually from directly under Double Arch, was taken shortly after dawn. Photographers were starting to drift away from the most popular spots as the crowds started to arrive.
When we arrived at the park, before dawn, we were able to drive straight in and park pretty much anywhere. Three hours later as we left for breakfast, virtually all the parking spots were taken and I counted well over a hundred cars queueing up in each of the two lanes at the entrance gates.
A circular fisheye view of Double Arch at Arches National Park in Utah. This formation is absolutely huge, so I thought it'd be cool to use a circular fisheye lens that captures a 180 degree field of view to get it all in one shot. This is a hand held shot taken from the area between the arches, looking straight up. The lens is the Sigma 4.5mm f/2.8 EX DC Circular Fisheye.
I was really hopping I would get another chance at this on my trip but was not to be, hence I did not get so close.
Rare and remote, Grosvenor Arch is one of nature's awe-inspiring natural double arches. Wind and water persistently carved away at the landscape to reveal this double arch set high atop majestic cliffs. Originally called Butler Arch by early settlers, Grosvenor Arch was renamed in 1947 by a National Geographic Society expedition in honor of their founder. It is located within Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, southeast of Kodachrome Basin State Park in southern Utah.
A four minute exposure to erase all the humans climbing everywhere on a particularly glowing evening in Arches National Park. Follow @sky_folk on Instagram
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Located in the Windows Section of Arches National Park, Double Arch was used as a backdrop for portions of the 1988 movie "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade".
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I shot this 12-image panorama because I thought it was a nice example of arch formation. Here you can see an abundance of features forming at the contact between the overlying massive Slick Rock Member of the Jurassic Entrada Formation and the underlying weaker Dewey Bridge Member of the Jurassic Carmel Formation. One of the interesting features to note is that arches form where these zones of weakness occur along narrow fins of rock. Where it is just a cliff with a lot of rock behind, the hollowed out area won't reach any sky behind. Eventually, the front will collapse before the back end can reach sky to form an arch.
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Here is a back shot of the 40cwt double arch Steam hammer. This was taken in 1976 inside Eveleigh locomotive workshop In Redfern NSW Australia.
The Milky Way Rises behind Double Arch at Arches National Park in Utah. Arches National Park is a national park of the United States in eastern Utah. The park is adjacent to the Colorado River, 4 mi north of Moab, Utah. The park contains more than 2,000 natural sandstone arches, including the well-known Delicate Arch, which constitute the highest density of natural arches in the world. It also contains a variety of other unique geological resources and formations. The national park lies above an underground evaporite layer or salt bed, which is the main cause of the formation of the arches, spires, balanced rocks, sandstone fins, and eroded monoliths in the area.
The bridge carries the busy A59 road over the Leeds-Liverpool Canal, and at one time the road dipped and crossed a humped-back bridge making it quite dangerous for busy traffic. the answer - build another bridge on top of the original. The result is this double-arched bridge - one of the rarest and most-photographed structures on the canal network. The original bridge dates to about 1790
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Double Arch, Arches National Park. My Flickr friend Don Cook and I went out to do the night sky through Double Arch but we spent so much time uh trying to get the light painting down that I used up my hour I had planned to do a startrail. So I went back a couple of nights later. The sky had some light clouds passing through, accounting for the distortion particularly on the planet at the far left. All in all, it was still a lovely evening.
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Other arches in Arches National Park get more press, but I like Double Arch. I don't know that there is another dual arch anywhere and the size is amazing. Look closely to see people at the foot of the arch and sitting on a ledge to get a perspective of the vastness of this formation.
Now, remember that these arches are formed by dripping water and blowing wind and imagine how patient Mother Nature has been in forming this formation.
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Sky: 38 x 25 seconds
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This is a 62 shot panorama of the setting Milky Way arch combined with the rising Summer Milky Way arch taken in a canola field near Wongan Hills, 2 hours north east of Perth in Western Australia. In the Southern Hemisphere, this type of double arch image is possible from August to October, contrasting to the Northern Hemisphere where it is only possible during March every year, and this is the first time I have tackled it. The process involves shooting both arches when the apex of the arch is at complimentary altitudes. I chose 50 degrees, so shot the first arch (setting Milky Way) around 10pm then waited until around 3am to start shooting the summer arch which includes Orion.
On planning this shoot I was joined by another astrophotographer and we were hoping to get to the nearby Lake Ninan but with higher than usual winter rains the lake was quite full and difficult to access. Luckily we anticipated this might happen so looked for some alternative spots as we were driving to the location. We found this canola field with a narrow dirt track that just happened to be pointing directly south, exactly the orientation at which both arches meet, so it was perfect...and it was just down the road from where we originally planned to shoot. A bonus was we got quite possibly the calmest night I have experienced in a very long time so the canola stayed perfectly still.
Prominent in this image, from left to right, is the California Nebula on the far left, then Orion and Barnard's Loop, the Flame Nebula just below that, the Seagull Nebula at the apex of the left arch and then the large Gum Nebula. One decision you need to make with these images is the orientation of the Magellanic Clouds. For the setting arch they are aligned vertically while the summer arch they are aligned horizontally, and as you can see here, I chose the latter. Moving onto the setting arch we see the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex and Zeta Ophiuchi Nebula inside the arch while the Cygnus region, which features the North America Nebula, is on the far right. Also note directly above, and slightly to the left, of the Large Sagittarius Star Cloud, the Corona Australis Molecular Cloud, the extensive dusty region that almost looks like a diving bird from this angle. It is the first time I have captured it so clearly.