Coffee Pot Rock by auntietk
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
Description
Sedona, Arizona
See the coffee pot?
When I posted the first picture in this series, A Little Off the Top, I said, Sedona is famous for its red rocks, but a lighter colored layer overtops the rusty red sandstone. You'll see the connection later in this series.
Here you go! Here's the connection between the light layers and the red stuff.
The red rocks have a high iron content, and the color is literally caused by that iron having rusted. The iron content in the top layers must not be very high.

Comments (26)
Superb capture Tara. God Bless.
Mother Nature is the mistress of Layers Great capture and I've a cuppa right next to me
Good shot Tara. I think I will have a cup of coffee.
I've hiked all around there, but I still think that looks like a chicken!! Loving this series and seeing Sedona again!!
I should visit Sedona soon. I like iron colored rocks...they're so Martian! I love the layers in this, and after reading Marilyn's comment, I have to say that I also see a chicken, as well as a coffeepot, or maybe a chicken's coffeepot. It's hard to say which. This is really fantastic, and I'm sure there's a perfectly logical geological explanation for the layering pattern, but what strikes me is how the limestone colored rock makes me think of icing.
Splendid capture Tara .Here we are in an other world who is yet our world.We are strangers in visit. Again Happy New Year Tara!!!!
Great place and capture. Well done
What? No YouTube link to an appropriate piece of 60's music? It looks marvellous. Iron oxide is the colouring agent most frequently used by studio potters. I still have a large sack in the garage..something else to rehome before I pop off!
I do not see the coffee pot, all I see are many many faces! Nice shot Tara!
A chicken? I see the buildings in the forground. They give a marvelous perspective. These things are huge. Love the detail. Good stuff.
There must be a lot of iron in that rock for it to have the rich red color.
I just love these rusty rocks. Wonder if you wipe them down with Rustoleum if they'd shine? Guess it would take a massive amount to try it. And a big arm. Absolutely breathtaking landscape here!
Another excellent desktop! Love the foreground!
What a beauuutiful coffee pot shot :-) Love the colors and texture on these mountains and the little village below. Lovely place.
Beautiful capture of the layered rocks & yes, I do see the coffee pot. I also like the way you've included the houses to provide some indication of scale. Sedona is an amazing place...
wonderful landscape, great colored rock formations, excellent capture!
Oeee - I would LOVE to visit there! Reminds me of Namibia! I do see the coffee pot! What a lovely image and vista Hun!
i will never forget the color of this rocks, was there 1986;) long time past.. great landscape and i love your serie of them!
Excellent capture! :)
Beautiful Hugs Susan~
bonne année 2013
Whether coffeepot ;) chickenrun ;) or rust ;) - it's a mindboggling vision, you gotta have respect for Mother Nature, where we are the size of ants ... Superb presentation, Tara BB
Yes I do, actually..... I think I'm going to brew up a pot..... Another incredibly beautiful photo, Tara!
I love those colors.
Chicken with a bit of coxcomb sure enough. Beautiful composition and postwork. You always bring the best out of these awesome places.
Beautiful rock formations