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Title
Natural Bridges National Monument Utah
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Photography And Digital Art
Description
If you want to make a roughly 50-mile detour driving between Moab and Monument Valley in Utah, you can visit Natural Bridges National Monument, Utah’s first National Monument. Not only is it a longer route, it’s also a slower drive. I had the afternoon to make the drive so I thought it would be no problem. I was almost to the entrance when traffic was reduced to one lane for road paving. It was one of those long areas of construction where you have to wait for the ‘guide vehicle’ to lead the waiting cars to the other end, where it then guides cars back in the opposite direction. The flag woman told me the wait would be 20-30 minutes! But I was too far committed to back out, so I just waited. When I started driving around Bridge View Drive, I instantly wished to have that 20-30 minutes back! The first turnout gave this view of White Canyon. If you had been here 260 million years ago, you would be on a white sand beach, the shoreline of the sea covering eastern Utah. Over time, the water spread and receded, leaving layers of sand, silt, and mud. Then plates started colliding beneath the surface to push the layers upward in a slow uplift process. After that, it only took the Colorado River and its streams to cut into the high plateau to give the winding canyons of today. So much for the white sandy beach! Natural Bridges was established as a National Monument by Theodore Roosevelt in 1908. We should be mindful today that our actions in preserving the environment today will, like this example, be around for people to enjoy a century or more from now.
Thank you for visiting my art galleries. If you love armchair traveling, feel free to indulge yourself in my many galleries! See more like this one in my Western USA gallery at: https://joan-carroll.pixels.com/collections/western+usa
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FEATURED PHOTO, Million Visitors Artists group, 11/6/20
FEATURED PHOTO, Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery group, 9/22/20
FEATURED PHOTO, Your Very Best Photography group, 9/19/20
FEATURED PHOTO, Exploration Photography group, 9/15/20
FEATURED PHOTO, Your Story of Art group, 9/15/20
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Natural bridges, national monument, national, monument, Utah, rocks, rocky, strata, canyon, mountains, landscape,
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September 15th, 2020
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Port Orange, FL - United States
One of your peers nominated this image in the 1000 views Groups nominated images by your fellow artist in the Special Features #17 promotion discussion. Please visit and pass on the love to another artist.....L/F/Tw
Washington, DC - United States
Beautiful landscape work! Nominated for special feature in the 1000 Views Group
Niceville, Fl - United States
Stunning landscape! l/f and nominated for a Special Feature in the 1000 Views group.
Fort Worth, TX - United States
thank you Miroslava for the feature in the Million Fisitors Artists group, 11/6/20
Iola, WI - United States
Your excellence in your submission of this work is worthy of special recognition, and I am seeing to it, that this happens in the WFS group. I am so happy to have you as an active member of our family of friends and fine artists, who support one another by comments, likes, faves, sharing, etc. Thanks for all your efforts to make our group so special by having a fine artist like yourself among many other fine artists that make our group so special.
Fort Worth, TX - United States
thank you Frozen in Time for the feature in Your Very Best Photography group, 9/19/20
Fort Worth, TX - United States
thank you Nader for the feature in the Exploration Photography group, 9/15/20
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