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

[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.”

[equaviator]

"surreal"

I'll decide what's surreal or not!
("That's right honey, everything is surreal")

[Scarlett156]

Some of them are 2 inches.

[Vermont Lt]

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.

[Scarlett156]

lol just stop

[Scarlett156]

Are you married?

[Vermont Lt]

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

[Scarlett156]

I know, right?

[Vermont Lt]

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

[mewzilla]

Frozen hoodoos...

Cool...

[AFreeBird]

They remind me of chess pieces ♟

[Scarlett156]

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

[Deaf Smith]

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.

[grame]

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

[viewfromthefrontier]

Spectacular! Thanks for posting.

[Daffynition]

Nature is crazy cool!

[faucetman]

And people wonder what God does in His spare time.

[Daffynition]

WESTBROOK, Maine; ice disk on the Presumpscot River.

[Daffynition]

[faucetman]

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

[Lurker]

For later.

L