#monocline

Echoes in the Landscape Echo Cliffs, Navajo Nation Traveling along our way across the earth as though following the sound of ethereal echoes to navigate the night sea…eyes closed, correcting course with each interpretation of shifting Doppler wave, each whispered word of calling on the wind.

1999: Looking south along the Waterpocket Fold, a 160km long monocline in the Capitol Reef NP

Dreamy

Now This is a Way to to Start a Hike! (Capitol Reef National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: I'd seen the Moon earlier that morning before entering the national park but never had an idea it would follow me in the morning skies that day or the others during that October trip across Utah. This was right after starting the hike and walk to Hickman Bridge not long after sunrise. But with sunrise, I'd find that added difficulty in metering this image properly. I could see the area off in the distance with the sunrise just over the taller peaks around me and that sliver of brighter colors and lights. Nearby me were areas more in shadows...all in all what appeared to be a large dynamic range. So I metered a few spots to get a best average for a shutter speed. I then used Active D-Lighting and some control and color control points in Capture NX2 to bring out the final image. A bracketed exposure with HDR might have brought a better exposed image across all colors and tones with this setting, well...I was playing around with different techniques, using in-camera HDR, HDR and then a single exposure RAW image to see what I got. This is a single exposure RAW image.

Mount Augustus, Gascoyne region, Western Australia, 1,274 km north of Perth While Uluru (Ayers Rock) in the heart of the Australian outback stands as one of the most recognizable landmarks globally, Mount Augustus, (Burringurrah) stands as the largest monocline on Earth. A monocline is a geological formation where a single rock layer is folded or bent, resulting in a steep, unbroken line.  Mount Augustus stretches approximately 8 kilometers (5 miles) in length, more than twice the length of Uluru, and soars to a height of 858 meters (2,818 feet) above sea level, making it even higher than Uluru's 348 meters (1,142 feet). source: Australia's Golden Outback

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