this was taken inside wire pass. in an area where the floor space widens i leaned up against one side and took this shot of a design on the opposite wall. even though it may look like carved wood it's rock.
That almost looks like the life lines of a tree. I wounder if that is so, the tree would have to be petrified to look like that though. Anywho, you did a beautiful job on this. You are doing a fantastic job on this series. I want more more...........lol
A fantastic shot Jen. I am with the others, they do look like trees rings. I love the light & shadows on the rock. This is just amazing....excellent work.
This is so beautiful Jen. It is hard to image a rock as having this much beauty! What an awesome desktop this is going to make as soon as I finish typing! The colors are so rich and the shadows dance along the rock and give it such beautiful highlights! This is quite a capture girlfriend. Way to go!!! Downloaded into my favorites folder on my hard drive so I can run it in mys screensaver slideshow as well! Thank you for sharing this beauty with us :~)
Great looking sandstone. The color is wonderful. Did you know that the dark streaks are generally caused by water running down the face. This looks so much like some of the canyons I've seen at Lake Powell.
Excellent eye, composition and capture. Love the light, subtle colours and shadow play. Hope you won't mind if I borrow this to my save file. Well done.
Over 6 years old, and probably taken with a lower-rez camera, but still an awesome image and good eye, Jen. What you're seeing here are successive layers of silt that settled to the bottom of the Western Inland Sea (also known as the Sundance Sea, the Niobrara Sea, or the Cretaceous Sea) that ran from the gulf of Mexico to just north of the North Dakota/Canadian border, approximately 100 million years ago. As each layer settled it's weight pressed upon the layers below, hardening them. Mountain building, or land lift, would have brought the silt up and out of the inland sea, forcing out the water and bending the layers of silt (now rock) into the odd shapes you see here. Other lines in this image are scrapes created by pieces of harder material pressing across the layers as the lift turned the layers. If you ever go back there, look very close to see if you can get macro photos of fossilized organic sea life embedded in the layers.
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