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Here's to you Harmon👍👍...in honor of my photography buddy who hiked Chimneytop Gap in the Jocassee Gorges with me for over 10 miles across the ridgelines last Saturday morning...Today, as a birthday present to myself, I flagged the old trail to the foot of Pinnacle Falls, a ridgeline hike that launches up and across an old logging road for 1/3 of a mile then drops 621 feet down a switchback trail, (adorned with fallen hemlock trees and washouts) to the foot of this massive waterfall!...How she roars!...and in such a sublime setting! This waterfall has two viewing areas from the original trail and two separate viewing platforms reached from two different trails at different elevations from the other side of the creek... More photos to come!
It's only an exceptionally average photograph but I thought this pano gives a good sense of the Trona Pinnacles area. With some friends heading out to the Death Valley area in the next few months I figured I'd get this one posted for their reference...
The canyon walls near Lookout Point have eroded into a series of castle-like pinnacles along the North Rim of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. The canyon walls are made up of rhyolite (Volcanic rock) that has been altered by hudrothermal activity (Hot sptings). Alteration of the rock gives the canyon its beautiful colors.
Hiking in Pinnacles National Park, California. Serene view from Bear Gulch Reservoir. Follow me on Instagram www.instagram.com/normfoxphotography/
The Trona Pinnacles dominate the landscape as southbound Trona loads creep through the desert. This move has engines on each end, not the usual occurrence for this operation. Although they were primarily in place for a switching move along the line, they also provided helper power on the hill coming into Searles - what a great sound!
Trona Railway SD40T-2 2005 continues the southward climb out of the Searles Valley as it passes through the Trona Pinnacles.
More from my trip out west earlier this year.... This image didn't catch my eye in a first or second pass through, but it started to grow on me. It was a grey'ish blue moody sky and desert browns, but with a conversion to B&W, I liked it much better. The Trona Pinnacles are an other-worldly like place, walking among and sleeping at the foot of those spires is a pretty neat experience. If you're in the Death Valley area, it's a nice overnight camping (primitive) excursion. Sorry for the lack of engagement/posting over here...I think it's just become that time of year and hard to stay engaged in anything for too long. I hope everyone has a great Friday and upcoming weekend!
Starting a series on some of the sights enjoyed in The Badlands of South Dakota.
The Pinnacles Overlook offers sweeping views of the jagged natural formations and wildlife in the Badlands. Perfect for a high view spot, the overlook is located at the highest point along the Badlands Loop Road near the Pinnacles Entrance. On clear days the Black Hills can be seen to the NW.
Enjoy your Sunday!
Second trip to the Pinnacles this year, and this is one of two panoramas I captured. I wasn’t expecting the zodiacal light to stand out so clearly with all that galactic glow around it. Initially planned to shoot the sky pano with a shorter focal length for extra resolution, but after a long night (and a 2-hour drive still ahead), I opted for the usual 24mm focal length and still ended up with a 4GB image 😐
Nikon D5500 (Modded), Nikon D5200
Samyang 24mm f/1.4
Star Adventurer 2i
Hoya UV/IR Cut
After a very overcast day, I thought that the sunset would be a fizzer at the Pinnacles but at the last minute the sky lit up. Way too bright towards the sun but a brilliant double rainbow opposite. A quick change to 14mm Samyang and turning to the west et voila! All handheld as the rainbow and light didn't last very long.
The Pinnacles were only discovered in 1967 (at least to the majority of non-indigenous Australians). No one is really clear about how they came to be but it is a very large area with rocks sticking up from the sand. Wikipedia mentions 3 theories....
Running four up front and two in the middle, a heavy train is fighting up and away from The Pinnacles as they claw for Searles Jct.
An unplanned night at the Pinnacles
I originally had two locations locked in for this shoot, planned a week in advance — but conditions changed quite abruptly. With a sudden shift in weather just 24 hours out, I had to ditch both Plan A and B. With limited options, I made the call to head back to the Pinnacles.
This image is just a slice of a much larger 360° panorama I’m still working on. Editing has been a real challenge — the sky was full of “heat lightning,” flashing across the horizon without visible bolts or thunder. If you look closely at the bottom left of the sky, you’ll see what looks like a storm brewing — but it was actually much farther away, silently lighting up the night.
This is also the first time I’ve stitched together a 75-image pano with so much variation in exposures. It’s been tricky, but an incredibly rewarding experience.
Nikon D5500, Nikon D5200
Samyang 24mm f/1.4
Star Adventurer 2i
Hoya UV/IR Cut
One of the pinnacles catching first light with some vineyards and orchards below.
Peshastin Pinnacles State Park features sandstone slabs and spires in a desert environment with views of the surrounding orchards, Enchantment Range, and Wenatchee Valley. Park activities include rock climbing, hiking, birdwatching, and wildlife viewing.
Largely used as a climbing park, Peshastin Pinnacles also makes an ideal stop on Highway 2 to stretch your legs, or as a destination during a visit to Leavenworth, Wenatchee, Cashmere or Chelan.
Enjoy your Sunday!
In the almost surreal atmosphere of the day fading away, two of the Aiguilles d'Arves (Aiguille Centrale 3.513 m and Aiguille Méridionale 3.514 m) still capture the very last rays of the setting sun.
A sublime and majestic spectacle... purely Gothic.
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Blyde River canyon viewpoint, Sudafrica.
Un monolite di roccia si erge per decine di metri dal piano della giungla. Sullo sfondo, la vallata si apre fino all'orizzonte estremo.
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Been awhile since I posted a black and white shot. I like to mix it up from time to time.
A view from near the top of Mt. Rainier's Pinnacle Trail.
I posted this image earlier in technicolor but thought it worked well in monochrome as well. Coior version in comments.
Hope your week is off to a wonderful start.
I'm thinking bird on the top of the tower is probably a Clark's nutcracker. Here is the full size image.
The Pinnacles are limestone formations contained within Nambung National Park, near the town of Cervantes, Western Australia
Il Deserto dei Pinnacoli si trova ai margini del Nambung National Park, vicino alla cittadina di Cervantes nell' Australia Occidentale.
I pinnacoli sono formazioni calcaree la cui origine risale all’accumulo di conchiglie di molluschi marini che si sono frantumate e trasformate in sabbia calcarea.. Lo scioglimento del calcare e il suo accumulo in dune dovuto all'azione delle piogge e del vento ha contribuito a creare questo ambiente unico, quasi alieno.
The Pinnacles is contained within Nambung National Park, near the town of Cervantes, Western Australia. The Pinnacles are limestone formations. The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from seashells which were broken-down into lime-rich sand. Wind formed high sand dune and rain scaused the lime to seep to the bottom of the dunes, where it stuck together and formed limestone.
After over a week without chasing dark skies, I was absolutely stoked to head out again last Friday. The weather wasn’t the best—partly cloudy, a bit blowy, and cold enough to make you wish you’d packed an extra jumper. But sometimes, you just take what you can get, hey?
Even with the dodgy conditions, I managed to snap this 35mm, 18-shot pano of the southern Milky Way rising over the Pinnacles. It’s not every night you get to see the stars putting on a show like this. Reminds you why braving the cold and late nights is always worth it.
Gear: Nikon D5500 (modded) - 35mm f/1.8 - Star Adventurer 2i Pro - Hoya UV/IR cut
Sky: 12 x 30s, 35mm at f/2.8
Ground: 6 x 4s, 35mm at f/8
This is an edited version of an earlier posting that was recently awarded in my local camera club selfie competition. It's my type of selfie...nothing up close and personal here :-)
My friends and I rode 25 miles from Randsburg to the Trona Pinnacles. I was following the RZR and it was dusty but worth the ride.
The Trona Pinnacles are a geological feature in the California Desert National Conservation Area. The landscape consists of more than 500 tufa spires, some as high as 140 ft, rising from the bed of the now dry Searles Lake. At one point during the Pleistocene, the area was under 640 feet of water without an outlet to the sea. The water became salty and mineral laden. Fresh water springs releasing into the lake formed the tufa spires.
The sunset against the Chinook cloud had reached the pinnacle of it's color. Sitting on the bank of the river was an excellent vantage point to take in the spectacle.
Explore #89, thanks
Rising from the bottom of what was once an ancient lakebed, the Trona Pinnacles represent one of the most unique geologic landscapes in the California Desert. Over 500 of these tufa (or calcium carbonate spires) are spread out over a 14 square mile area across the Searles Lake basin. These features range in size from small-coral like boulders to several that top out at over 140 feet tall.
The Pinnacles were formed between 10,000 and 100,000 years ago when Searles Lake formed a link in a chain of interconnected lakes flowing from the Owens Valley to Death Valley. At one point during the Pleistocene, the area was under 640 feet of water.
Tufa towers are tall columns of calcium carbonate (limestone) that form below lake level through chemical reaction of spring water coming up from the floor of the lake with saline lake water.