May 09 2007

Over the millenniums the mountains grew, as one tectonic plate forced another ever higher, the Eastern Sierra's are born. And then came the ice and glaciers, carving the mountains and rocks, sculpting the Sierra's as we see them today. The glaciers create rocks, pushed away from their birthplace, rivers of ice growing ever larger sculpting an ethereal landscape. And then the sun returns and the glaciers retreat, leaving behind the rocks and stones...rivers form, winds blow and the rocks are sculpted once again. And here lies one rock, sculpted and carved over tens of thousands of years, offering a window to look upon it's ancestral home as the sun rises to the east. For all eternity one rock longingly looking up at where it used to call home.

Ok, I have no idea if that is actually what occurred, and I'd probably fail multiple geology courses just on principle.

This is the Galen Arch, taken from the Alabama Hills looking up at Lone Pine Peak.

I pushed the blacks in this shot more than I normally would, but I like how it brought out the orange/pink hue of the rocks.

Lone Pine, CA
March 2007