Vermillion Veins by alexnoriega

2015 Autumn in Olympic Tour with Alex Mody
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Incredible otherworldly sandstone formations in a very remote area of northern Arizona, at morning twilight. Looks best on black.

I’ve been wanting to get out here for years, having been inspired by others’ images of this seemingly alien landscape. There are many locations in the American southwest where taffy- or candy-like formations can be found, but I still haven’t seen anything that compares to the combination of sharp folds and color contrasts of this particular geologic marvel, so adeptly showcasing the forces of time.

Although it was a great time coming out here with my friends Joe and Scotty, crushing the notoriously rough 4×4 roads with ease in our monster of a vehicle, we arrived with only an hour to scout before sunset, and only stayed one night. Therefore, without much time to find something 100% unique, I chose to shoot the formations that interested me most, despite knowing they’d been photographed before. Additionally, with nary a cloud in the sky, I wanted to focus on areas that had an abundance of visual interest in the land portion, which would be complemented well by featureless or starry blue skies. Hopefully my interpretation is able to stand on its own. I know I’ll be back here again, as the photographic possibilities are endless.

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Vermillion Veins by alexnoriega

2015 Autumn in Olympic Tour with Alex Mody
Private Workshops and Tours
Private Online Post-Processing Instruction Via Skype

Incredible otherworldly sandstone formations in a very remote area of northern Arizona, at morning twilight. Looks best on black.

I’ve been wanting to get out here for years, having been inspired by others’ images of this seemingly alien landscape. There are many locations in the American southwest where taffy- or candy-like formations can be found, but I still haven’t seen anything that compares to the combination of sharp folds and color contrasts of this particular geologic marvel, so adeptly showcasing the forces of time.

Although it was a great time coming out here with my friends Joe and Scotty, crushing the notoriously rough 4×4 roads with ease in our monster of a vehicle, we arrived with only an hour to scout before sunset, and only stayed one night. Therefore, without much time to find something 100% unique, I chose to shoot the formations that interested me most, despite knowing they’d been photographed before. Additionally, with nary a cloud in the sky, I wanted to focus on areas that had an abundance of visual interest in the land portion, which would be complemented well by featureless or starry blue skies. Hopefully my interpretation is able to stand on its own. I know I’ll be back here again, as the photographic possibilities are endless.

http://bit.ly/1Ekuorx

Vermillion Veins by alexnoriega

2015 Autumn in Olympic Tour with Alex Mody
Private Workshops and Tours
Private Online Post-Processing Instruction Via Skype

Incredible otherworldly sandstone formations in a very remote area of northern Arizona, at morning twilight. Looks best on black.

I’ve been wanting to get out here for years, having been inspired by others’ images of this seemingly alien landscape. There are many locations in the American southwest where taffy- or candy-like formations can be found, but I still haven’t seen anything that compares to the combination of sharp folds and color contrasts of this particular geologic marvel, so adeptly showcasing the forces of time.

Although it was a great time coming out here with my friends Joe and Scotty, crushing the notoriously rough 4×4 roads with ease in our monster of a vehicle, we arrived with only an hour to scout before sunset, and only stayed one night. Therefore, without much time to find something 100% unique, I chose to shoot the formations that interested me most, despite knowing they’d been photographed before. Additionally, with nary a cloud in the sky, I wanted to focus on areas that had an abundance of visual interest in the land portion, which would be complemented well by featureless or starry blue skies. Hopefully my interpretation is able to stand on its own. I know I’ll be back here again, as the photographic possibilities are endless.

http://bit.ly/1Ekuorx

Vermillion Veins by alexnoriega

2015 Autumn in Olympic Tour with Alex Mody
Private Workshops and Tours
Private Online Post-Processing Instruction Via Skype

Incredible otherworldly sandstone formations in a very remote area of northern Arizona, at morning twilight. Looks best on black.

I’ve been wanting to get out here for years, having been inspired by others’ images of this seemingly alien landscape. There are many locations in the American southwest where taffy- or candy-like formations can be found, but I still haven’t seen anything that compares to the combination of sharp folds and color contrasts of this particular geologic marvel, so adeptly showcasing the forces of time.

Although it was a great time coming out here with my friends Joe and Scotty, crushing the notoriously rough 4×4 roads with ease in our monster of a vehicle, we arrived with only an hour to scout before sunset, and only stayed one night. Therefore, without much time to find something 100% unique, I chose to shoot the formations that interested me most, despite knowing they’d been photographed before. Additionally, with nary a cloud in the sky, I wanted to focus on areas that had an abundance of visual interest in the land portion, which would be complemented well by featureless or starry blue skies. Hopefully my interpretation is able to stand on its own. I know I’ll be back here again, as the photographic possibilities are endless.

http://bit.ly/1Ekuorx

Vermillion Veins by alexnoriega

2015 Autumn in Olympic Tour with Alex Mody
Private Workshops and Tours
Private Online Post-Processing Instruction Via Skype

Incredible otherworldly sandstone formations in a very remote area of northern Arizona, at morning twilight. Looks best on black.

I’ve been wanting to get out here for years, having been inspired by others’ images of this seemingly alien landscape. There are many locations in the American southwest where taffy- or candy-like formations can be found, but I still haven’t seen anything that compares to the combination of sharp folds and color contrasts of this particular geologic marvel, so adeptly showcasing the forces of time.

Although it was a great time coming out here with my friends Joe and Scotty, crushing the notoriously rough 4×4 roads with ease in our monster of a vehicle, we arrived with only an hour to scout before sunset, and only stayed one night. Therefore, without much time to find something 100% unique, I chose to shoot the formations that interested me most, despite knowing they’d been photographed before. Additionally, with nary a cloud in the sky, I wanted to focus on areas that had an abundance of visual interest in the land portion, which would be complemented well by featureless or starry blue skies. Hopefully my interpretation is able to stand on its own. I know I’ll be back here again, as the photographic possibilities are endless.

http://bit.ly/1Ekuorx

Chromatic Scale by ErinBabnik

People who know me well will understand how large my eyes became when I saw all of this purple sandstone at South Coyote Buttes. I love purple. For years now wearing purple has been something of a uniform for me when I’m out shooting. It all started because I was spending a lot of time in the Alps and wanted my outerwear to make me visible in the landscape in the event of an emergency. Primary colors are traditional in mountaineering wear for this reason, but I wanted something a little more feminine, and purple was the obvious choice. So I got into the purple habit, and it stuck.

Now, for better or for worse, it has reached the point where people tend to associate me with the color, often coming up with nicknames for me ranging from “The Purple Ninja” to “Her Purplitude”. I even have people recognizing me when they see me shooting simply because of the color I’m wearing. A particularly welcome occasion of the sort took place when I was shooting in the California redwoods, immersed in the dim light of the forest, when I heard someone call out my name. It was David Cobb, and he said that my purple jacket had caused him to recognize me. He then led me further down the trail where Sean Bagshaw was turning his magic towards a famous branch of rhododendron blooms. Thanks to the purple jacket, I had a lovely chat with those two and even made preliminary plans for meeting up with Sean in Slovenia later that summer. I love purple.

But I digress. I shot this scene during a trip with mavens of the southwest Paul Rojas and David Thompson. I also had the great pleasure of getting to shoot with Paul’s adorable wife Mich, who happens to do a lot of her shooting in a superb pair of purple pants.

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The Vortex by JaredWarren

[Best on black background] I suspect most who’ve visited the White Pocket area of Vermillion Cliffs National Monument are very familiar with this landmark. However, I don’t see many images of it, possibly because it’s a little challenging to photograph (at least I’ve felt that way; hard to isolate just the formation, excluding other distracting elements). I settled on the best composition I could come up with, and was very happy to have the setting sun light up the virga system in the background. The image is a 3-exposure “focus stack.”

This area is “otherworldly” to begin with, but to me this sandstone formation really calls to mind the idea of some kind of interstellar wormhole; a vortex connecting our world to some distant part of the universe. 😉

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