Smith Rock State Park by bmac62
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...Smith Rock State Park encompasses 651 acres on the Oregon high desert plateau, which hovers around 3000 feet in elevation.
...The major rock faces are composed of welded tuff (compressed volcanic ash) reaching a height of up to 550 feet. The picnic and campground areas sit on top of the rimrock, which is made up of columnar basalt.
...the snowy, volcanic peak on the horizon is part of the Cascade Range.
Bill
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Comments (32)
nice image and wonderful trees!
What a view! That's a great shot, Bill! Love the look of this spectacular landscape!
Fabulous landscape Bill and I think the cloud formation looks great too!!
Beautiful view. Great capture.
very wonderful. i see the volcano is far away but it made this .
wonderful view and landscape !!
Such a beautiful view here. Aloha
This is a fantastic image Bill and a great explanation of the rock formations.
Thanks for the memories! That was such a great day. (Well, they ALL were! LOL!) What a fun place to play. This is a wonderful image, capturing so many of the elements of Smith Rock. Beautiful shot, hon! :*
wowwwww....super scenery
This is remarkable..your landscape photos are SO good, and when i attempt such a shot it is invariably nothing like what I saw!
Wow! Another really dramatic photo of wild, undisturbed nature (at least from what we see through the camera's lens). And, thanks for the geology lesson. Now, you've got my curiosity piqued - what volcano is that snow covered peak in the distance? Keep 'em coming! :-)
Stunning view, beautiful place!
A jigsaw puzzle with amazing depth, Bill! Clive
Nature! Need man add to this view, words just cannot capture what your eyes see! Stunning mate.... Rob
WOW! What a marvellous view. Wonderful shot, Bill.
Beautiful view chief
Wow! The lighting is absolutely perfect for this spectacular vista...well done you!
That's a really beautiful view from there. :) Excellent capture!
Very nice capture.
What a beautiful landscape, excellent pic!!!
Beautiful scenery - your composition is superb.
Beautiful capture Hugs Susan~
Wonderful naturally framed beauty Bill!!
Any mention of 'American Wilderness', this is what I imagine...I've zoomed and looked hard but I don't see any tee-pee's by the river...shame. This is an awsome view, my Wife has a stock comment for views like this, "if I was going to build a house....." this time she'd be dead right, beautiful....
A MOST TERRIFIC, MARVELOUS IMAGE!
Superb clarity and lighting bring out the wonderful DOF and textures in this stellar view, Bill. And I see contrails up on high.
H'm, no "teepees" and no rock climbers. Must be an off day for such a great scene. If someone says "welded tuff" It was welded with heat, not compression. There are many examples of such in the Western Interior, especially near the Cascades and Great Basin. They are the products of glowing gaseous volcanic clouds (nuee ardente) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuee_ardente). Don't get me wrong, burial with a kilometer of overburden may help with compression, but it isn't needed to make this kind of rock.
A wonderful sight.
outstanding image!!