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During this road trip, I camped at Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada on October 17th. During the day the light was super harsh...and I didn't get a single photograph. I retreated to my campsite to prepare dinner. I noticed that some of the sandstone walls surrounding the campground were in shade--so I walked a couple of hundred yards to capture these abstracts.
The blue colors on the rocks seemed almost unbelievable. I later learned that the blue color results from desert varnish--a natural film made of clay minerals, manganese oxide, and iron oxide that gradually forms on rock surfaces in arid environments over thousands of years.
I know abstracts aren't everyone's cup of tea, but here are 8 pictures that I captured there.
The blue colors on the rocks seemed almost unbelievable. I later learned that the blue color results from desert varnish--a natural film made of clay minerals, manganese oxide, and iron oxide that gradually forms on rock surfaces in arid environments over thousands of years.
I know abstracts aren't everyone's cup of tea, but here are 8 pictures that I captured there.
© Glenn Nagel Photography