Well I finally completed the sale of my store and have moved into my house. Now I can get down to doing what I love - photography :) I missed everyone and am so happy to be back :)

scene of the Petrified Forrest after summer monsoon

Petrified Forest NP

Painted Desert

Camera: Canon Eos 6D

Lens: EF24-105mmF/4L-USM

Aperture: f/18.0

Focal Length: 24 mm

Shutter Speed: 1/125

ISO: 160

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For the last 800 years, lime has been mined here.

But 63 million years ago, it was a giant coral reef at the bottom of an ocean.

If you bring a hammer and chisel, you can find shells, shark teeth, sea crocodile teeth and more.

It was "only" 3 million years after the great meteor strike that killed the dinosaurs, but life on earth flourished again. There is a geomuseum on site that tells about nature at that time.

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Snow Canyon SP

Camera: Canon Eos 6D

Lens: EF24-105mmF/4L-IS-USM

Aperture: f/11

Focal Length: 24 mm

Shutter Speed: 1/320

ISO: 100

No this is not another planet - it is the badlands of the Petrified Forest National Park, July 2021.

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Snow Canyon SP

Camera: Canon Eos 6D

Lens: EF24-105mmF/4L-IS-USM

Aperture: f/11

Focal Length: 28mm

Shutter Speed: 1/100

ISO: 100

Panorama of Deadvlei; originally taken in 2015, re-processed.

Plant fossil preserved in stone.

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Petrified Wood

Gary found and cut

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Looking like a pile of dog turd - these log looking structures were once trees that are petrified - turned to rock.

www.bing.com/travelguide?q=Petrified+Forest+National+Park...

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Panorama taken at Arches NP

Camera: Canon Eos 6D

Lens: EF24-105mmF/4L-IS-USM

Aperture: f/11

Focal Length: 70 mm

Shutter Speed: 1/100

ISO: 100

Blue Mesa

Panorama 13,896 x 3,546 pixels

Camera: Canon Eos 6D

Lens: EF24-105mmF/4L-IS-USM

Aperture: f/18

Focal Length: 60 mm

Shutter Speed: 1/160

ISO: 200

Bit of a dark and moody one for a change. I was drawn to this petrified writhing shape as I peered into the mist. Taken in Hillock Wood, Buckinghamshire.

Happy Monochrome Monday

Miles Davis: Human Nature

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFRvqEFzJA4

inside The Wave, Arizona

In keeping with my point in the previous photograph, can you spot the petrified shark in this picture? [I'll tag it for you in case you can't.] For all the world it looked like some prehistorical shark had been washed up into this little shaded cove and been turned to stone.

One thing we all can't miss however, is the light and shade working its magic on the sand and rocks.

limpets grazing in some cozy crevasses in an ocean of rocks until the tide comes up again.

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Petrified Forest National Park in AZ

Storms rolled in briskly there while in Arizona at the Petrified Forest.

Petrified Forest National Park

Anyone remember the one where Popeye traveled to the island of the Goonies? Looks like a Goony nose to me...

Anyway, this one is of the moon setting over some large rock formations in Joshua National Park.

Have a nice day!

Stormy times while at this park in Arizona.

Wild clouds heading in over the Arizona land.

Stormy weather over Arizona.

Storm rolls in over the land there in Arizona.

Stormy evening there in this amazing landscape in Arizona. This scene is filled with numerous petrified logs that seem to go on forever.

Ominous clouds making their way across Arizona and this pretty national park.