52 Week Photography Project

December 2024 Edition

49-Hard to Explain- So I made a photo.

Hanging by a thread.

My hiking buddy Chad clings to a Navajo sandstone cliff at the White Pocket formation within Northern Arizona’s Vermillion Cliffs National Monument.

Fortunately, we were able to extricate him from his precarious situation and he came away unscathed.

I later took a photo of the “cliff,” sans cropping and rotation.

50-White Noise- Like the book, or not.

Back to White Pocket — a hillock of white “brain” sandstone is reflected in a pool of water.

The sandstone is so-called due to the unique color, folds and strata that make this geologic formation resemble a human brain.

White Pocket was so named by 19th century cattlemen, whose herds came to the site for its reliable source of water. Following a rain, depressions or pockets amid the white sandstone would fill with…