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A tiny tree, seemingly dead, stands atop a mound of eroding mudstone on a softly sloping plain. Behind it rises a more angled array of mudstone mounds, disappearing above the top of the image. At left is a small hoodoo capped by a dark ironstone rock.
It's a small world: found bonsai, undisclosed badlands locality, NW New Mexico
#scape #ECK #desert #minimalist #blackandwhite #badlands #hiking #offtrail #erosion #geology #hoodoo
A huge boulder sits at a tilt on top of a deeply weathered mound of clay or mudstone, which shows a network of cracks. Behind and to the right, on the horizon, rise a number of irregular-shaped hoodoos. The sky is featureless.
Protection: Lybrook badlands, NW New Mexico
#RockInTuesday #EastCoastKin #boulder #badlands #wilderness #hiking #offtrail #landscapephotography #blackandwhite #classicmono #hoodoos #NewMexico
A pair of gray mudstone pinnacles rise into the clear blue sky, one showing a sparse remaining cap of reddish ironstone. To their right and below, a pair of red-capped hoodoos stand guard, the nearer of which looks like a platform. In the far left distance an escarpment reaches to the horizon.
Monumental: Lybrook badlands, NW New Mexico
#badlands #wilderness #NewMexico #landscapephotography #blueskymonday #EastCoastKin #offtrail #erosion #geology #hoodoos #hiking
A pair of huge boulders rest atop adjoining siltstone mounds, separated by a long ridge of eroded siltstone that connects them. The sky is dark and featureless in this black and white image. The foreground is flat and lightly eroded, punctuated by tongues of broken rock pebbles. Desert plants are sparsely placed throughout.
Bipolar: undisclosed badlands locality, NW New Mexico
#Stunday #blackandwhite #classicmono #EastCoastKin #landscapephotography #wilderness #badlands #NewMexico #erosion #geology #hiking #offtrail
An imposing triangular rock face rises into the sky at right, capped by ochre-colored ironstone. Beyond and to the left a wall of similar composition stretches behind and beyond the foreground formation. The sky shows dappled puffy clouds.
Wall of chaos: Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah wilderness, NW New Mexico
#RockinTuesday #EastCoastKin #wilderness #NewMexico #hiking #offtrail #rockformation #hoodoos #geology #erosion #bluesky
A flat-topped hoodoo stands against a white puffy cloud, with what appears to be a hand held up to its "face" - a bow cloud appears at far right, seemingly resulting from a blown breath of the formation. The ground beneath the hoodoo slopes away, stratified and eroded.
Wind god Niltsi blows a kiss: Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah wilderness, NW New Mexico
#RockInTuesday #EastCoastKin #landscapephotography #NewMexico #wilderness #hiking #offtrail #blackandwhite #hoodoo #erosion #suggestive #geology #erosion
Late afternoon light puts a glow on this mudstone badlands promontory. A thriving juniper bush grows against an ironstone boulder, to the right of which is a jaunty blockheaded hoodoo. The azure blue sky is almost covered with fluffy white clouds, grey at bottom.
A higher perspective: Lybrook badlands, NW New Mexico
#Stunday #EastCoastKin #landscapephotography #NewMexico #badlands #wilderness #offtrail #hoodoos
A huge boulder sits solidly atop a broad base of layered stone surrounded by other similar rocks that have fallen to the ground. A scattering of pinon pines decorate the terrain. Behind and along the horizon are high ridges of lighter-toned rock against a dark, featureless sky. Canon 5DII, f/5.6, 1/60 sec. @27mm
A boulder, a blockhead, the undisputed mass leader: Lybrook badlands, NW New Mexico
#RockInTuesday #EastCoastKin #badlands #NewMexico #wilderness #hiking #offtrail #landscapephotography #blackandwhite #classicmono
A striking flowstone feature in shades of pink and red rises toward the sky. Its topmost features are sharp and ragged, with a hoodoo topping off the pinnacle at right center. Yet-higher cliffs are hinted at in the far right distance.
False summit: undisclosed badlands locality, NW New Mexico
#Landscapephotography #NewMexico #mudstone #badlands #backofbeyond #hiking #offtrail #wilderness #erosion #geology #hoodoo #EastCoastKin
Intimate view of a tortured badlands landscape, with a heavily eroded mound rising vertically in the image from lower left to upper right. A series of tiny ironstone pebbles fan out from top to bottom along the right lower quadrant. A healthy looking conifer grows at upper left, while a high prominence razors the skyline. A single wisp of cloud drifts off-camera at upper right.
The weight of the world
#BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #blackandwhite #classicmono #wilderness #hiking #offtrail #badlands #NewMexico #erosion #geology
A towering pillar of eroded mudstone pierces a weirdly colored sky streaked with clouds that seem to radiate from its center. From the base of the formation, dark iron-colored silt appears to rise, vein-like, upward into the body of the whitish mound. A prominent flat ironstone cap sits atop a pillar of white at middle right. Behind and stretching into the distance, a tortured terrain stretches to the horizon.
Corruption of the false prophet: VOD East
#Stunday #EastCoastKin #badlands #NewMexico #wilderness #hiking #offtrail #landscapephotography #falsecolor #alienscape #clouds #hoodoos #rockformation
An oddly shaped limestone mass sits atop a pedestal of eroded mudstone. The gently sloping ground on which it stands is slowly eroding away. Behind, in the middle ground, pinyon pines flank the beginning of steeper slopes rising toward a shale and mudstone mountain.
Intimate, closeup view of a light-colored limestone plaque held aloft by a pedestal of slowly eroding mudstone. Behind, in close proximity, rises a massive hill of multi-hued clay and mudstone. The sky above is faultless blue.
Two pieces from the sculpture garden: undisclosed #badlands locality, NW #NewMexico
#BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #rockformations #landscapephotography #hiking #wilderness #offtrail #backofbeyond #onapedestal
Eroded hills of multi-hued mudstone serve as a bulwark in front of a steep-sided promontory composed of harder, more resilient rock. At the base of the promontory is a cluster of low, scrubby trees. The sky above is faultlessly blue.
A mighty fortress: undisclosed #badlands locality, NW #NewMexico
#Scape #EastCoastKin #wilderness #hiking #erosion #geology #backofbeyond #offtrail
Several rounded boulders sit and the base of an eroding, multi-hued slope of mudstone. The sky above is streaked with fair weather clouds.
A slender pedestal of whitish mudstone is capped by an iron-colored rock of harder material, roughly shaped like a gorilla's head.
Under a faultless blue sky stretches a range of stratified mudstone hills and ridges. The foreground features a rapidly eroding blob-like mass of mudstone, with streaks radiating out from it toward the observer's viewpoint.
🎵These are a few from my favorite place:
an undisclosed badlands locality in NW #NewMexico
1. Three wise rocks (plus a couple extras)
2. The tree topper
3. The snowman (on his back and melting)
#landscapephotography #backofbeyond #hiking #wilderness #erosion #geology #EastCoastKin #offtrail
The torturously twisted trunk of a dead juniper tree rises from the pebbled desert soil of a badlands environment, looking like a crazed artist's sculpture. Behind it, a sloping, stratified hillside climbs to a blue sky streaked with clouds. The shadow of the juniper appears prominently at lower left.
Definitely twisted: Lybrook badlands, NW #NewMexico
#BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse #EastCoastKin #juniper #deadtree #wilderness #landscapephotography #hiking #offtrail #badlands #geology #stratification
A tortured-looking landscape of eroded, steep-sided cliffs with multiple prominences. A mudstone hill comprises the foreground at right, while white puffy clouds are above. A pair of ravens can barely be seen at upper left-center.
Complex badlands #scape, with ravens
#Lybrook #wilderness #offtrail #NewMexico #landscapephotography #EastCoastKin #blackandwhite #hiking #classicmono
Orange-red ironstone caps a siltstone pinnacle looming up into a blue sky with puffy, darkening clouds. A satellite pinnacle, much shorter and without a hard cap, stands to the left. On the right, a scrubby pinon pine grows at the top of a slope of rubble. In the foreground we see a variety of scrub brush.
Pinnacle and offshoot - Lybrook #badlands, NW #NewMexico
#landscapephotography #wilderness #rockformation #bluesky #erosion #geology #hiking #offtrail #tree
A steep-sided ridgeline of stratified, eroding shale and mudstone rises beneath a brilliant blue sky with puffy white clouds. At the base of the ridge, mounds of low-sloped mudstone fan out toward the camera.
Wall of hoodoo - Lybrook badlands, NW #NewMexico
#hoodoos #badlands #wilderness #hiking #offtrail #erosion #geology #landscapephotography
Streaking white cloud tendrils seem to emanate from a rocky pinnacle atop a weathered mound of variegated shale and mudstone. The foreground is taken up by a nearer, lower mound of similar variegated composition. Off to the right and in the distance lie other realms of sedimentary deposition.
Promontory: Bisti badlands, NW #NewMexico
#classicmono #EastCoastKin #wilderness #badlands #hiking #offtrail #geology #erosion #rockformation #blackandwhite
#landscapephotography
A broad ironstone platform rises into the brilliant blue sky, cradled by tendrils of flowstone. At the pedestal's base sits another ironstone boulder. All around are additional weathered and eroded mudstone and siltstone features.
Under the sky, lifted high: Valley of Dreams, NW #NewMexico
#RockinTuesday #badlands #wilderness #hiking #geology #erosion #offtrail #rockformation
A chunky hoodoo-like rock formation tilted way over on its side, with the caprock still hanging on above the siltstone base. It sits on a mudstone pedestal on sloping terrain, with eroded and deeply etched cliffs behind. The sky is mostly clear with streaks of fair weather clouds.
Held up by force of will: #Bisti badlands, NW #NewMexico
#RockinTuesday #EastCoastKin #badlands #blackandwhite #landscapephotography #erosion #geology #hiking #offtrail #wilderness #rockformation
Shadow on the sand: Cosmic Ashtray
#landscapephotography #Utah #Escalante #hiking #offtrail #wilderness #geology #rockformation
A jumble of shapes and colors make it hard to focus on a particular element, but two stand out: The flat, angled boulder at the bottom, and the central pointed mudstone mound at top center. Between these features we see a line of incipient hoodoos weathering out of the tilted surface. In the upper distance is a jagged ridgeline against the clear blue sky.
Levels of insanity: undisclosed badlands locality, NW New Mexico
#landscapephotography #EastCoastKin #bluesky #badlands #backofbeyond #erosion #NewMexico #geology #hiking #terrain #offtrail
Happy Sunday! I love finding unknown canyons in rarely visited places. So many gems when you spend the time and effort to get out and look around. #Stunday #nature #utah #ColoraDay #OrangeSun #hiking #ProtectOurPublicLands #backpacking #photobyraykenny #ShotsInSlots #wildplaces #offtrail
Happy Sunday! I love finding unknown canyons in rarely visited places. So many gems when you spend the time and effort to get out and look around.
#Stunday #nature #utah #ColoraDay #OrangeSun #hiking #ProtectOurPublicLands #backpacking #photobyraykenny #ShotsInSlots #wildplaces #offtrail
“I dress myself in a swirled cloak of cross beds, Wrapping my arms around the sky, I hug the clouds in glorified joy” #poetry #WeekRForRock #hiking #wilderness #backpacking #offtrail #NavajoSandstone #crossbeds
“I dress myself in a swirled cloak of cross beds,
Wrapping my arms around the sky,
I hug the clouds in glorified joy”
#poetry #WeekRForRock #hiking #wilderness #backpacking #offtrail #NavajoSandstone #crossbeds
Vacancy in the brain department - De-Na-Zin wilderness, NW New Mexico
#blackandwhite #fineart #photography #landscape #NewMexico #wilderness #offtrail #hiking #geology #differentialweathering
The Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness is more than just Coyote Buttes and Paria Canyon. This rarely visited butte on top of Vermilion Cliffs glows in the morning light with streaks of creamy white and an orange marmalade top.
#ColoraDay #OrangeSun #Stunday #hiking #wilderness #offtrail
A dark chasm separates the foreground mound at lower left from the background plateau above and to the right. On the farther plateau we see numerous erosion-shaped crags and hoodoos standing out against the sky behind. A scattering of white clouds adds structure and interest.
The gap between us
#NewMexico #badlands #blackandwhite #hoodoos #erosion #geology #offtrail #backofbeyond #metaphorical #highcontrast #wilderness #hiking
