Grand Staircase Escalante Toadstools Metal Print

metal prints nature metal prints desert metal prints landscape metal prints utah metal prints grand staircase escalante metal prints national monument metal prints toadstool metal prints hoodoo metal prints spire metal prints southwest metal prints west metal prints scenic metal prints clouds metal prints thunderstorm metal prints red rock metal prints

photographs nature photos desert photos landscape photos utah photos grand staircase escalante photos national monument photos toadstool photos hoodoo photos spire photos southwest photos west photos scenic photos clouds photos thunderstorm photos red rock photos

Add This Artwork to Your Favorites Collection

Comment

Add This Artwork to Your Favorites Collection

Comment

Toadstool formation in Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. The toadstools are formed when a Dakota Sandstone boulder causes the underlying Entrada Sandstone layer to erode at a slower pace directly beneath it, forming a spire.

It all started when I was about 5 or 6 years old and I got my hands on a well used Kodak Brownie Target Six-20. I would wander the neighborhood, carefully selecting the 12 exposures, and then run the roll of black and white 620 film to the Fotomat in the parking lot of the nearby grocery store to get it processed. I eventually progressed to a Kodak 110 Instamatic, that I earned by selling newspaper subscriptions, and then in 1977 my parents gave me an Olympus OM-1 SLR for Christmas. The OM-1 opened up a whole new world for me. It was a real camera and felt solid in my hands, but it was also a completely manual camera. No autofocus. No autoexposure. It forced me to learn the relationship between shutter speeds and f-stops, how to control...