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Just off Highway 89 outside Page, AZ is an area called Stud Horse Point. With what water that remains in Lake Powell visible in the distance, this area of Hoodoos, red conglomerate cap stones, revenues and colored rocks, offers grand vista and many photo opportunities. The afternoon light gave me the best colors.
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It took ages to find this toadstool, I’d found a few broken ones but no whole ones. The woods were really dry too, even though it had rained a lot the night before I think the long dry summer has left the whole area bone dry. Still, this one jumped out at me so I tried my Panasonic 14mm wide open at f2.5 for this shot. Oh and it needed a little light so I lay my torch in the twigs a couple of feet away to shine underneath. P
Rimrocks hoodoos, Paria Plateau, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
I like the face underneath the cap- took me by surprise when I walked up
Mushroom above ground level. They amaze me how the pop up after a dorment stage and wait for the right conditions to produce. Just beneath the earth the spores are always waiting to arise! to the occasion..
Hiked out into the desert in the Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument toadstool area near Page, Arizona. Walked around a bend in the trail and entered the magic toadstool area... The toadstools are formed when a hard rock capstone keeps the underlying softer rock from eroding away.
I did the same walk as the previous day, and photographed the group of toadstools with the sun slightly lower in the sky. I think this one is better.