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Day 277: A brief interlude, part 1

Some members of the Great Falls Photography Club went out Sunday to Rock City.  It is an area of Hoodoos near Valier.  It is pretty fun shooting photos up there!

A nine photo panorama of the Marias River, or Birch Creek, and some of the Hoodoos.

(Click to enlarge; BACKto return!)

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The far right end of the photo above, in more detail.

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(1/350s f/8.0 ISO125 28mm -1 Canon 7D)

This looks like it could be several feet across, and there were some that were, but this is about two feet wide, where water has worn away the rock.

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(1/180s f/8.0 ISO125 28mm -1/2 stop 7D)

Some colorful lichen on a rock.

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(1/750s f/8.0 ISO250 109mm -1/2 stop 7D)

A closer view of some lichen.

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(1/750s f/8.0 ISO250 130mm -1/2 stop 8D)

This very interesting rock shows how the rock is almost all layers.  You can see where some layers have cut across others.Day1327706

(1/350s f/8.0 ISO125 41mm -1 stop 7D)

A tree growing in the midst of the Hoodoos!

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(1/250s f/8.0 ISO125 56mm -1 stop 7D)

Some fluff near the rocks.

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(1/250s f/5.6 ISO125 135mm -1 stop 7D)

A stack or two of rocks.

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(1/350s f/8.0 ISO125 56mm 01/2 stop 7D)

If you were wondering what was in the hole on the right above, here it is!

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(1/90s f/8.0 ISO125 135mm -1 stop 7D On-camera flash)

Two photographers lost in the wilderness.

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(1/125s f/8.0 ISO125 125mm -1/2 stop 7D)

Another view through a hole!

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(1/60s f/9.5 ISO125 135mm 7D)

A typical Hoodoo.

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(1/60s f/16.0 ISO125 47mm -1/2 stop 7D)

~Curtis in Rock City! {!-{>

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