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Photographer Captures Otherworldly Sand Pillars Sculpted by the Wind on Shores of Lake Michigan—And the Shots Are Surreal
Epoch Times ^ | 19 January 2022 | Michael Wing

Posted on 01/20/2022 8:07:48 AM PST by Scarlett156

Confronted by an army of tiny, slanted pillars of frozen sand, carved by the harsh winds on the shores of Lake Michigan, nature photographer Joshua Nowicki knew he had spotted something extraordinary.

The marketing photographer, who snaps landscapes for a living, heads down to the lake almost every night in search of opportunity. This particular December evening in 2021, Nowicki stopped by Tiscornia Park Beach in St. Joseph to photograph spectacular ice starting to accumulate on the lighthouse pier, but he found something far stranger.

“Waiting for sunset, I was walking along the beach and happened upon them,” Nowicki told The Epoch Times of the otherworldly pedestals dotting the beach like some alien landscape. “I have found them a variety of times in the past … but these ones were larger than usual and there was a greater variety of shapes.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Hobbies; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: greatlakes; nature; photography; seaandsand
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To: Scarlett156
"surreal"

I'll decide what's surreal or not!
("That's right honey, everything is surreal")
21 posted on 01/20/2022 9:05:14 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: aquila48

Some of them are 2 inches.


22 posted on 01/20/2022 9:07:09 AM PST by Scarlett156 (All right... now, if you will: When did Mr Manson start to seem like he wasn't your ideal boyfriend?)
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To: Scarlett156

I used to drive around doing this stuff. You really need the ability to “see it” when it ‘appears’ in front of you. And looking a the same landscape over, and over, and over again…only to see something new is where you shift from documentarian to artist.


23 posted on 01/20/2022 9:07:54 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: DoodleBob

lol just stop


24 posted on 01/20/2022 9:07:56 AM PST by Scarlett156 (All right... now, if you will: When did Mr Manson start to seem like he wasn't your ideal boyfriend?)
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To: Vermont Lt

Are you married?


25 posted on 01/20/2022 9:09:08 AM PST by Scarlett156 (All right... now, if you will: When did Mr Manson start to seem like he wasn't your ideal boyfriend?)
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To: Loud Mime

It’s done to prevent someone using their picture without permission…kind of like how it was posted on FR.


26 posted on 01/20/2022 9:09:16 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: gloryblaze

I know, right?


27 posted on 01/20/2022 9:10:13 AM PST by Scarlett156 (All right... now, if you will: When did Mr Manson start to seem like he wasn't your ideal boyfriend?)
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To: Scarlett156

Yup. I see new stuff all the time. I saw a spot once…turned out to be cancer.


28 posted on 01/20/2022 9:10:28 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Scarlett156

Frozen hoodoos...

Cool...


29 posted on 01/20/2022 9:11:39 AM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: SJackson

They remind me of chess pieces ♟


30 posted on 01/20/2022 9:13:50 AM PST by AFreeBird
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To: Vermont Lt

I’m sorry. Try not to worry about it. (That’s what your doc will say.) And we’re here for you.


31 posted on 01/20/2022 9:14:54 AM PST by Scarlett156 (All right... now, if you will: When did Mr Manson start to seem like he wasn't your ideal boyfriend?)
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To: aquila48
The link says they are tiny and that the guy had to get very low to the ground.

In the pics, one can pretty much count the grains of sand.

32 posted on 01/20/2022 9:17:50 AM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Scarlett156

They are different all the time. Those who live close are scrambling to schedule a visit! Pictures are fine for me.


33 posted on 01/20/2022 9:26:51 AM PST by grame (May you know more of the love of God Almighty this day!)
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To: Scarlett156

Spectacular! Thanks for posting.


34 posted on 01/20/2022 9:27:19 AM PST by viewfromthefrontier
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To: SJackson
Nature is crazy cool!


35 posted on 01/20/2022 9:35:41 AM PST by Daffynition (*This admin tells us *A* story; but they don't tell us *THE* story* & :) ~ D Bongino)
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To: Scarlett156

And people wonder what God does in His spare time.


36 posted on 01/20/2022 9:37:01 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: SaxxonWoods; Ezekiel
WESTBROOK, Maine; ice disk on the Presumpscot River.


37 posted on 01/20/2022 9:41:58 AM PST by Daffynition (*This admin tells us *A* story; but they don't tell us *THE* story* & :) ~ D Bongino)
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To: Vermont Lt

38 posted on 01/20/2022 9:44:25 AM PST by Daffynition (*This admin tells us *A* story; but they don't tell us *THE* story* & :) ~ D Bongino)
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To: Scarlett156

“If the wind goes where you send it, so will I”


39 posted on 01/20/2022 9:45:39 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Scarlett156

For later.

L


40 posted on 01/20/2022 9:47:47 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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