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handcranked.bsky.social
Happy #Stunday! I was stunned by all the different rock formations at Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness during our tour with @navajotoursusa.com

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#ArtYear
Mushroom-like rock formations against a pale blue sky with clouds. It looks otherworldly.
November 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
johnme23.bsky.social
Upslope: Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah #wilderness, NW #NewMexico

#landscapephotography #blackandwhite #hiking #badlands #erosion #geology #backofbeyond #rockformation #hoodoos
A set of towering rock formations loom over a sloping mudstone fan in a treeless desert. A pocket of large rocks and boulders rests as if cradled by surrounding hillocks at the top of the slope at left, where a shadow line seems to encircle them. The sky is nearly featureless with a few small clouds.
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
johnme23.bsky.social
Hoodoo grotto in morning light: Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah, NW #NewMexico

#Scape #EastCoastKin #LandscapePhotography #blackandwhite #classicmono #wilderness #erosion #geology #hiking #backofbeyond #rockformation #hoodoos #monochrome #badlands
Looking down into a basin chock full of hoodoos and other weird rock formations, rendered here in stark, heavily-shadowed monochrome. The distant horizon line is barely visible at top, along with a glimpse of featureless sky. Canon 5DII, f/8 for 1/125 sec.
November 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
johnme23.bsky.social
Hillside sentinels, Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah, NW #NewMexico.
I always seem to gravitate back to the #badlands.

#wilderness #hiking #landscapephotography #erosion #hoodoos #backofbeyond #rockformation
A pair of irregularly-shaped hoodoos stand atop a low ridge of mudstone under a deep blue sky with scattered clouds. The caprocks atop these rock formations are an iron-red sandstone, with hundreds of smaller ironstone pebbles scattered on the hillside below.
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
johnme23.bsky.social
Thanks to ‪Charles Golson‬
‪@charlesgolson.bsky.social‬
for alerting me to the Preston/Childs novel Bad Lands, which I found recently at Half-Price Books.
(Much of the action takes place in Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah - can't wait to read it!)
November 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
handcranked.bsky.social
Gingersnap in meringue or strange rocks?

Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness from my trip with @navajotoursusa.com

#RockinTuesday
#ColorADay #BlueTue

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#ArtYear
An orange-brown round rock jutting out of cream-colored rocks with an orange layer on top. It looks a bit like a gingersnap coming out of meringue. Bits of blue peek through the clouds.
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 AM
johnme23.bsky.social
Freshly exposed: Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah #wilderness, NW #NewMexico

#Scape #EastCoastKin #landscapephotography #hiking #backofbeyond #blackandwhite #erosion #geology #sedimentation
A series of sandstone slabs are eroding out from the surrounding soft sediments in this sloping drainage below a group of reddish cliffs and mudstone mounds. The sky above is blue with a few puffy clouds. Black and white rendition of the accompanying color image.
November 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
johnme23.bsky.social
Point of interest: Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah #wilderness, NW #NewMexico

#classicmono #EastCoastKin #badlands #hiking #blackandwhite #landscapephotography #hoodoos #rockformation #geology #erosion #backofbeyond
An elegant, odd-looking hoodoo takes center stage in this high-contrast image. Perched among the weathered and eroded hillocks of silt and mudstone, it rises spire-like into a bank of fair-weather clouds.
November 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
johnme23.bsky.social
Symphony of stone: Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah #wilderness, NW #NewMexico

#landscapephotography #geology #erosion #hiking #backofbeyond #badlands #hoodoos #blackandwhite #classicmono #eastcoastkin
A black and white landscape showing an array of rock formations, with many pedestals of eroded sediment capped by ironstone boulders. There is a jumble of boulders at the bottom of the central wash. The sky above is mostly clear with a single wisp of cloud at center.
November 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
johnme23.bsky.social
Nessie of the desert: Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah #wilderness, NW #NewMexico

#badlands #landscapephotography #hiking #stratigraphy #erosion #geology #backofbeyond #hoodoos #rockformations
A slender-necked hoodoo with a tiny caprock rises elegantly above the sloping mudstone floor of this desert scene. At lower left is a reddish-colored ironstone boulder, while in the middle distance a mudstone ridge is capped by additional hoodoo structures. The sky is mostly clear with a few wispy clouds.
November 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
navajotoursusa.com
Awe-inspiring trips to Valley of Dreams, Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Navajo Wilderness.

#NewMexicoTrue
#VisitFarmington
#scape
October 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
johnme23.bsky.social
Different image (and different processing strategy) of a rock formation I posted a week-ish ago. At Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah #wilderness.

#blackandwhite #landscapephotography #badlands #hiking #backofbeyond #erosion #geology #hoodoos #rockformation
A stovepipe hoodoo at left with a flat-top hoodoo closer to center of the black and white image. A range of other rock formations fan out to the right, while at bottom we see the ray-like eroded base of the hillock hosting the hoodoos. A large flat boulder sits at bottom. The sky above shows fluffy white clouds.
October 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
handcranked.bsky.social
Walking in a dream

@kialowinters.com from @navajotoursusa.com walking through the incredible landscape of Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness.

#Stunday ##ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#ArtYear
A black and white photo of a man walking down badlands. A deep crevice leads you to him.
October 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
johnme23.bsky.social
Leveling up: Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah #wilderness, NW #NewMexico

#Stunday #EastCoastKin #landscapephotography #badlands #backofbeyond #hiking #erosion #geology #sedimentation
A series of mudstone mounds and ironstone caps rises in tiers toward a blue sky dappled with white clouds. The image is anchored at right by higher, more massive mounds of a darker shade.
October 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
johnme23.bsky.social
The strangest of places: Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah #wilderness, NW #NewMexico

#blackandwhite #classicmono #eastcoastkin #badlands #hiking #backofbeyond #hoodoos #rockformation #erosion #geology
A chaotically shaped hoodoo stands atop a weathered mudstone hill. Beyond and to the right we see another such hill with a different set of hoodoos atop it. White, puffy clouds populate the sky.
October 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
johnme23.bsky.social
A pair of chatty #hoodoos for your #twosday consideration.
Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah #wilderness, NW #NewMexico.

#badlands #geology #landscapephotography #hiking #backofbeyond #erosion #stratigraphy #rockformation #EastCoastKin
Two hoodoos stand in close proximity on narrow, undercut mudstone bases. They tower above the surrounding erosive landscape, whose strata appear banded in varying shades of gray, brown and red. The blue sky above is enhanced by scattered fair-weather clouds.
October 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
johnme23.bsky.social
Ground rules: Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah #wilderness, NW #NewMexico

#vertical #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #landscapephotography #hiking #backofbeyond #mudstone #erosion #wideangle
A highly textured dry mud flat stretches away into the distance from bottom to top, where a low range of hills appears at right. Above the horizon, white wispy clouds mottle the otherwise blue sky.
October 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
johnme23.bsky.social
Lay of the land: Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah #wilderness, NW #NewMexico

#landscapephotography #erosion #geology #stratification #hiking #backofbeyond
Puffy white clouds hover over eroded mudstone slopes, deeply channeled and interlaced with sediments of varying density and tonality.
October 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
m7pointer.bsky.social
Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness
#fineartphotography #hoodoos #badlands #blackadndwhite #monochrome #ancientwisdom
October 18, 2025 at 3:35 AM
johnme23.bsky.social
Back to the badlands, baby! The muddy roads dried up enough yesterday for me to access Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah, making my New Mexico trip a success. Heading home to do some image processing.

#badlands #newmexico #landscapephotography #wilderness #blackandwhite #classicmono #eastcoastkin
October 17, 2025 at 12:12 AM
johnme23.bsky.social
A Shangri-la of #scapes: Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah #Wilderness, NW New Mexico. Planning to visit here for the third time early next week. Hopefully the forecast rains won't have turned the approaches into mud baths.

#EastCoastKin #NewMexico #hiking #backofbeyond #hoodoos #erosion #geology #rockformations
A series of oddly shaped hoodoos sits atop a mudstone ridge, with azure skies and puffy white clouds above.
October 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
mountainscalling.me
Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness Study Area in New Mexico is filled with other-worldly formations like this

Just imagine the exact set of conditions that occurred over time to leave this rock shaped like a canoe balanced on top of a hoodoo⁉️😮

#Photography #Nature #Travel #ParkChat #ProtectOurParks #Hiking
I dont know if this one has a name but I call it "Canoe Hoodoo"
May 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
johnme23.bsky.social
Rocks in the clouds: Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah wilderness area, NW New Mexico.

#RockInTuesday #EastCoastKin #landscapephotography #wilderness #backofbeyond #newmexico #hiking #erosion #geology #badlands #hoodoos #bluesky
A group of oddly-shaped hoodoos emerges from the top of an eroded hillside. The blue sky above and behind is graced with puffy white clouds.
July 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
toddsnow.bsky.social
Valley of Dreams
Ah Shi Sle Pah wilderness New Mexico
September 5, 2025 at 8:43 AM
kialowinters.com
Off to Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Navajo this morning, hoping to catch the Alien Throne with a fresh dusting of snow. ❄️ #nmwx #WinterWonderland #NewMexicoMagic
March 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM