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Spiral weather patterns in rock surface at the White Pocket area of South Coyote Buttes in the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument.
The northern part of the Coyote Buttes can't compete with all those countless swirls and splendorous brainrocks you will find at the White Pocket. There is a gray rock layer, sometimes only a few centimeters thick, above the red sandstone that makes the whole landscape look like as if it was covered with icing sugar. Some hills bear resemblance to the Checkerboard Mesa at Zion N.P., others shine in a golden glow, but it's the red and white colors that prevail at the White Pocket.
This shot was more than 2 years in the making. Back in 2016 I decided to shoot star trails with my Nikon FE 35 mm film camera. I liked the option of the getting a clean star trail image in a single exposure plus I didn't have to worry about the camera running out of power especially in extreme cold weather. I wanted to use that entire roll of film just for star trails. I captured this 30+ minute exposure right at the start and was very excited to see the results. However it took me a long time to finish that roll of film. I was tempted many times to just shoot a bunch of shots and get it developed but I stuck with the initial plan and kept shooting star trails with it. It took me more than a year to finish that roll of film. After developing the film I was really pleased with how this shot turned out but not so happy with the quality of the scans. I tried a bunch of labs, scanned it myself but the results were not good enough. After another year I was able to get the scan I was looking for. I spent some more time on the post processing to get this version that I am really happy with
The northern part of the Coyote Buttes can't compete with all those countless swirls and splendorous brainrocks you will find at the White Pocket. There is a gray rock layer, sometimes only a few centimeters thick, above the red sandstone that makes the whole landscape look like as if it was covered with icing sugar. Some hills bear resemblance to the Checkerboard Mesa at Zion N.P., others shine in a golden glow, but it's the red and white colors that prevail at the White Pocket.
The northern part of the Coyote Buttes can't compete with all those countless swirls and splendorous brainrocks you will find at the White Pocket. There is a gray rock layer, sometimes only a few centimeters thick, above the red sandstone that makes the whole landscape look like as if it was covered with icing sugar. Some hills bear resemblance to the Checkerboard Mesa at Zion N.P., others shine in a golden glow, but it's the red and white colors that prevail at the White Pocket.