Cross Bedding geology formation. Nature's choice

Taken with a friend's Nikon D1X F/16, 1/60, Nikkor AF 28/1,4D, Gitzo

tripod with Manfrotto ball head. Galen Rowell's Graduated Neutral

Density Filter. Appreciate your comments.

Fantastic texture and colours!!!

Wow! Wonderful shades! / Fredrik

great colors, detail and composition. very interesting the way lings on the rock abruptly change direction half way, yet seem to be converging at a point. the placements of the two rocks also make it more interesting.

Nice shot. The filter works well. I would not have none that, if you had not included that info. Your friend has nice gear. I would be interested to hear how you liked his camera in comparision to yours.

Thanks everyone for stopping by. Sarah, my friend just wants to have the best but I must say he under-utilised his equipment. He's a swell guy and alway asks me to try it out but I'm afraid of losing or dropping it during a shoot. Better to be contented with what you have right? LOL!

 

The Nikon D70 also provide excellent images but the D1X will be much better for printing images larger than 13 X 19 with it's higher resolution.

This one is all about form. Basically one color, with varying shades, but such strong lines and textures, it works well.

Natures own drama..

beautiful diagonal, and exciting colours and forms..7/7

Original and interesting shot! Regards 6/6

it's all been said. Very strong image.

Thanks for stopping by guys. Any geologist care to explain the different strata formation? Thought this was unusual.

the upper part looks a bit dark ( GND filter ?)and slightly more punchy colour , very good and original , nevertheless ..

fantastic nature abstract!!!!!!

This works well for me. Love the texture. You did well with the bright light.

Very surealistic image. Great composition, color, lines, everything. Just plain fantastic.

Tuhin, Francesco, Ken, Howard, many thanks for your kind comments.

Good picture!

Bijan: (Cross Bedding)

 

http://images.google.com.sg/images?q=cross-bedding+%2B+images&hl=en&lr=&start=20&sa=N

 

Thanks for your very informative description which I will post into my image. Appreciate your kind response.

 

Regards,

Alec Ee

 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Bijan Hatami"

To:

Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 3:07 AM

Subject: Geo info on your "Faultline? Nature's choice" on photo.net

 

 

Hello. I'm not member of photo.net, but I do enjoy taking pictures and sometimes enjoy perusing the sites gallery, and I am a recent geology so I figured I'd help you figure out what you took a picture of. I think what you took a picture of is sandstone crossbedding. I would guess Zion or somewhere with similar rock type in the southwest. Here's a good little blurb with a nice diagram. (scroll down about halfway down the page into the "stratifcation and bedding section").

://earthsci.org/teacher/basicgeol/sed/sed.html

This is the best picture example I could find, not nearly as artistic as your shot.

http://faculty.uaeu.ac.ae/~afarrag/physical%20geology/cross%20bedding%20copy.jpg

It's definitely not a fault line because where the two different beddings planes hit each other, there is no sign of stress, cracking, or grinding (what would be called fault breccia or gouge, where the rock would become much softer and broken down). An example of a wide fault gouge zone, in between the 2 kids in the picture, is here.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://seis.natsci.csulb.edu/bperry/metarock/elsinoref2.JPG&imgrefurl=http://seis.natsci.csulb.edu/bperry/metarock/METAMORPHISM.htm&h=451&w=681&sz=39&tbnid=c-zqUOLQu5AJ:&tbnh=90&tbnw=135&start=9&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfault%2Bgouge%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D

 

Hope that helped a little bit. Geology's fun.

Bijan Hatami

 

and again very nice 7/6 for you.

 

Bram

I love this composition in red. The absence of comparison element makes it is difficult to guess the size of the subject. Is it two little rocks on a big one or two big rocks on a large rocky area ? Be that as it may, there is a great texture and the composition is very well balanced.

The colors and textures are incredible, I love shots like this (err, wait, this one is really unique as a geological shot, I've never seen one done quite like this, which is why I like it more than most).

Thank Bram, Alton, Henri the large rock is as big as 5 ft in diameter and the cross bedding covers part of the mountain side. What you see here is about 100 meters long.

I like the composition (yours and Nature's) with the diagonal dominating line and the way things are parallel on a side and perpendicular on the other. But, more interesting, the total loss of any sense of scale makes this quite amazing... and I try to figure out if these are small strata over a top-of-the-table arrangement of stones, or something mindy-bobbling large.

 

Well done, s.

Very nice shot, well done.