Petrify and Speakeasy
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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 :)
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
An alluvial fan covered with small pieces of petrified wood in the badlands of Petrified Forest National Park 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.
The Petrified Oak Forest of Mundon
On the Dengie peninsula of Essex sits Mundon, one of many small Essex villages, which would be easy to drive through without note, if it wasn’t home to the Petrified Oak Forest of Mundon.
Essex is a diverse county with urban areas of red buses and high-rises, whose boundaries blur with London; coastal seaside towns that offer a modern tourist experience equivalent to the Victorian dream; and small rural villages, where the roads snake around farmland and occasionally become a little too narrow. first sight the dark and twisted branches of the once magnificent oak trees, which formed part of a forest used to build ships for the Royal fleet, appear haunting.
The field is very quiet although the grazing sheep bring life to a place that would otherwise appear as if time itself had ended.
The oaks are tall, still, and stand against a backdrop of greenery that tricks the mind into believing something more sinister may have caused the demise of these trees.
Stories of Witches being common in these sort of villages and particularly in Essex with its connections to The Witch Hunter General (Matthew Hopkins), there are stories of foul-play.
However many believe that a change in the water table is responsible. A theory that is almost more haunting when you consider these giants reaching for the sky as the water they rely on slowly drains away beneath them, until finally they no longer change with the seasons, but remain frozen in time to witness the sheep and the tourists that carry on below.