Pictured above is more strange-looking artwork by God’s amazing lava brush and water-erosion chisel.
I attempted just enough fill flash so as to avoid overcoming the sunlit contrast of the formation’s far, upper side.
Undoubtedly deriving some of its shape from cooling lava, the scalloping is, I think, evidence of water current and eddy erosion over a vast period of time. It is consistent with the down-sloping direction of the riverbed that would have channeled the river into the formation (thus sculpting what we now see).
This site, as well as the one depicted in the preceding photograph (River Worn, No. B), are situated in the same location of the riverbed. No doubt this was a fairly turbulent bend in the river when it existed and perhaps even now during flash flooding.
The original image is a Tagged Image Format File (TIFF) with a file data size of 35.1 megabytes (MB).
For display on this web site the TIFF was duplicated and the duplicate re-formatted as a Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPG/JPEG) image with a file data size of 12.6 MB. To approximate detail visible at the time of capture the image was sharpened as necessary and resampled via the Photoshop Bicubic Sharpen algorithm. The re-sampling increases the image resolution from 300 Dots Per Square Inch (DPI) to 360 DPI.
Unless otherwise noted the image was corrected to offset color shift and balance. This restores black (shadows), white (highlights) and neutral gray (neutral mid-tones).
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