Painted Desert from Nizhoni Point

by Roger Passman

Title

Painted Desert from Nizhoni Point

Artist

Roger Passman

Medium

Photograph - Photographic Prints/limited Edition Prints/licensing

Description

The colorful Chinle, which appears on the surface in many parts of the southwestern United States and from which the Painted Desert gets its name, is up to 800 feet (240�m) thick in the park. It consists of a variety of sedimentary rocks including beds of soft, fine-grained mudstone, siltstone, and clay-stone�much of which is bentonite�as well as harder sandstone and conglomerate, and limestone. Exposed to wind and water, the Chinle usually erodes differentially into badlands made up of cliffs, gullies, mesas, buttes, and rounded hills. Its bentonite clay, which swells when wet and shrinks while drying, causes surface movement and cracking that discourages plant growth. Lack of plant cover makes the Chinle especially susceptible to weathering. At Nizhoni Point the forces of erosion are made clear as the badlands seem to recede from the mesa driven by a continual, unstoppable force of nature.

I made this exposure about 40 minutes before sunset on a beautiful October afternoon as the shadows grew longer and the light much warmer. I set my 19-105 mm lens to 28 mm for a true wide angle exposure of this wonderful landscape.
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A limited edition of 25 prints signed and numbered by the photographer are available directly from our studio. Sizes equivalent to any of the sizes offered as a print by demand through this online gallery are offered in this limited edition. These prints are only available directly from our studio gallery. Prints are delivered by US Mail rolled in a tube. For more information please contact me using the SEND PRIVATE MESSAGE option in the left sidebar of most of our online gallery pages.
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I processed the raw image file shot with a Canon 60D with an 18-55mm IS lens using Photomatix Pro 5, filters from Topaz Labs including Detail 3, BW Effects, ReMask 4 and DeJPEG 4 as well as some minor tweaking in Photoshop including sCurve adjustments, brightness, saturation and the camera raw filter to produce this Black and White HDR image.
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October 15th, 2016

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