Ancient formations, elemental forces, and landscapes shaped across millions of years.
Stone keeps its slow grammar while weather runs quick above it.
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By Erosion, By Hand — Dam Pool under a Turning Sky - Pinnacles Natl. Park. Spires stand over a hand-laid dam and small pool; the sky turns above them, and the reflection keeps a quieter time below.
By Erosion, By Hand — Pinnacles Natl. Park, California. Stone and masonry reading the same clock; a quiet balance between weather and work.
Crown Above the Draws - South Dakota Badlands. Uplift wears to terraces and ribs; the upper crown gathers light, then lets it fall down the flanks in slow sloughs. Gullies hold shadow like stored weather. At the margin, grasses lay a thin skin over dust—season set against geologic time.
Badlands Path - South Dakota. A faint track slips through pale grass toward the broken ridges. Wind drags weather across the basin. Light moves in long passes, catching edges and leaving the flats to rest.
Badlands Viewpoint - South Dakota. Foreground scrub marks the chasm’s edge; beyond it, ridgelines step outward to the prairie sea.
Wind Lines Over Stone - New Mexico. The sky runs in quick lines; the rock keeps its slow grammar. Ridges lean like pages half turned to weather.
Pages of Stone - New Mexico. Fins lean like half-turned pages; the basin breathes in streaks above them. Weather runs quick; the rock keeps its slow verb.
Switchback in the Ledge Sea - Bryce Canyon, Utah. Tier on tier of carved hills run to the far rim. A pale path cuts a measured turn through the foreground, a quiet stitch in moving ground.
Winter Front over the Amphitheater - Bryce Canyon, Utah. Weather bears down on layered breaks. Drifts ladder the hoodoos, benches catch light, and the basin carries distance between near stone and far rim.
Hillcrest with Passing Cloud - Bryce Canyon, Utah. Ridge line and scattered pines stand in quiet register; a low cloud drifts across the gap, setting a measure between ground and open sky.
Sky Sown with Sparks of Light - Hawai'i. Stone sleeps under a frost of starlight; the cone rises like a held breath between dark rock and blue night.
Inlet Kept by Dark Stone - Pinnacles Natl. Park, California. Stone rim over a still basin; reed at the edge—ledge, ripple, pause.
Crown in the Draw - New Mexico. A bent trunk climbs out of the cut and lifts a bright crown into the dark rock. Grain twists like rope, then loosens where the wind has had its say. Shale steps and seams hold small drifts; roots thread the slope in quiet lines. Light gathers in the leaves, a soft hoard against the canyon wall, and the ground remembers every lean and return.
Dune Bloom Under Weather - Pink Coral Sand Dunes, Utah. A pale thicket leans with the sand while sky moves in long strokes. The ridge holds its curve; rain hangs far off.
Desert Blades - Pink Coral Sand Dunes, Utah. A handful of blades pierce the dune, each with its shadow like a stroke of ink. The sand holds and softens every edge.
Bleached Bow of Wood - Pink Coral Sand Dunes, Utah. An arched scrap of weathered wood hunkers in the dune. Clouds muscle in. The sand pretends to sleep.
Standing in the Sun - Joshua Tree, California. Daggers of shadow cut the desert; the tree takes the heat and holds its stance.