"The Wave" look alike by 0rest4wicked

Photography • Landscape • posted on Apr 24, 2012

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This is more of a show and tell image than a beauty shot. Beginning with West bench, the distant red sandstone underneath the thunder storm activity. The darker green area between here and West bench is the drainage towards the Paria river. Left of center is what caught my eye, an area that looked similar to "The Wave" in the northern unit. For those unfamiliar with that name I've posted many images of "The Wave" earlier in my gallery. I will be posting images again of the north unit as I did finally win the lottery the next day. Hard to believe it's been 21 months of posting the day spent in the south unit..LOL! This look alike formation only looks a short distance, but at the end of my pleasant jaunt down this sandstone walkway it turned back into deep sand. Then I ran into a road block...lol. The group of small teepees directly in front of me form a single larger teepee. Around it was a perfectly symmetrical moat! The run off from the mesa above cutting these moats around the Teepee gave me only one option, and down into the wash I went. I hope to show some shots of the moats, but the images just won't show it's immensity to do it justice. Once down in the wash I began snaking my way around through the wash in the soft sand in the direction of my new find. After exploring the new formation I began climbing the massive sandstone formation composing the left side of this image. It was the last Island of sandstone before the landscape gives way to the slight grade of the drainage towards the Paria river. Climbing down from the left my return trip prompted me to go up the right side of the image. Tried not to retrace my footsteps in the hopes of seeing more unique features and it's better exercise than a stair master! The cross bedding through this little canyon is kind of nice and there is even some "Moqui marble" material(iron looking) in the sandstone. Saved at the lowest quality setting to make Rendo's requirements, so I hope it's zoom worthy. :~) The link below will take you to the last sandstone image. To view the last post "Star color", please see my gallery. To the kind souls that leave their mark whether a comment, rating, or save the image as a fav, you are very much appreciated, thank you

"Sandstone walkway"

Comments (32)

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Richardphotos

7:04PM | Tue, 24 April 2012

love seeing these hikes of yours

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Faemike55

7:05PM | Tue, 24 April 2012

Very impressive area and beautiful photograph

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0rest4wicked

7:09PM | Tue, 24 April 2012

Thanks guys! As I feared saving the image as low as the quality goes, it does lack detail in full view.

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blinkings

7:32PM | Tue, 24 April 2012

Beautiful.

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jocko500

9:12PM | Tue, 24 April 2012

wonderful you got these photos here. the land is so wonderful looking

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mgtcs

10:09PM | Tue, 24 April 2012

Amazing landscape my friend, excellent textures, marvelous work!

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bebopdlx

11:38PM | Tue, 24 April 2012

I love this place.

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gaius

1:31AM | Wed, 25 April 2012

The first time I went there, in the early 90's, The Wave was not so popular as it is today ! It's my favorite place on the earth....thanks for sharing.

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