Painted Hills
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- Confucius.
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It’s been a long time since we travelled anywhere and I am fast running out of shots to post and I am feeling that itch to get out of home again. Thankfully Thanks giving holidays are up on us and we are heading out to Arizona for a quick trip. For the time being I will have to settle for some shots from out summer road trip. This one is of the famous painted Hills of John Day Fossil beds National monument. We encountered a spectacular sunset here with clouds and the rolling hills creating an amazingly vivid View in front of us.
I went a bit crazy here taking a lot of shots in various compositions. I like how the clouds form a leading line in this shot and how the sky replicated the fantastic vivid hues of the painted hills that day. If you are ever in this location pleas take your time to visit and enjoy this beautiful treasure of a location, believe me it’s worth it. Thanks for visiting have a happy Monday.
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The colors of this area will change with the position of the sun, last rainfall, temperature etc. These photos were taken after rainfall the night before.
Painted Hills, is one of the three units of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, located in Wheeler County, Oregon. It totals 3,132 acres (12.67 km2) and is located 9 miles (14 km) northwest of Mitchell, Oregon. The Painted Hills are listed as one of the Seven Wonders of Oregon. Painted Hills is named after the colorful layers of its hills corresponding to various geological eras, formed when the area was an ancient river floodplain.
The black soil is lignite that was vegetative matter that grew along the floodplain. The grey coloring is mudstone, siltstone, and shale. The red coloring is laterite soil that formed by floodplain deposits when the area was warm and humid
An abundance of fossil remains of early horses, camels, and rhinoceroses in the Painted Hills unit makes the area particularly important to vertebrate paleontologists.
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- Plautus.
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Here is a shot of the beautiful sunset we witnessed at the Painted Hills National Monument. I was mostly worn-out by the time we reached here and was ready to call it a day. But my wife kept on trying to do the hike and dragged me up this hill, half way through the hike the sky started this multi color display and we just setup and started shooting.
It was amazing sight and the moon rise just added to the whole scene. Hope you all enjoy it as much as we did.