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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.”
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Hobbies; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: greatlakes; nature; photography; seaandsand
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The photographer is fascinated by the phenomenon’s ephemeral quality. “They do not last very long, usually only holding their shape for a few days,” he said. “The wind completely erodes them or knocks them over, and if the temperature goes up above freezing, the ice holding them together melts and they crumble.
To: Scarlett156
This will be the first time I’ll post this acronym without thinking of the beautifully artistic female form: TTIUWOP
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posted on
01/20/2022 8:09:48 AM PST
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Kevmo
(I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
To: Scarlett156
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posted on
01/20/2022 8:10:26 AM PST
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Scarlett156
(All right... now, if you will: When did Mr Manson start to seem like he wasn't your ideal boyfriend?)
To: Scarlett156
Cool! Just like the sandstone formations in the desert southwest, but on a micro scale!
Too bad the photographer didn't use image stacking to get an infinite depth of field.
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01/20/2022 8:11:24 AM PST
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ProtectOurFreedom
(81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
To: Kevmo
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01/20/2022 8:11:53 AM PST
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Scarlett156
(All right... now, if you will: When did Mr Manson start to seem like he wasn't your ideal boyfriend?)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
The photographer may have wanted a shallow depth of field to emphasize a few pillars.
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01/20/2022 8:13:16 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Kevmo
Here are a couple:
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01/20/2022 8:14:15 AM PST
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Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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Outdoors/Rural/wildlife/hunting/hiking/backpacking/National Parks/animals list please FR mail me to be on or off . And ping me is you see articles of interest.
Nice pictures. Sand Hoodoos
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01/20/2022 8:16:18 AM PST
by
SJackson
(I just think COVID is God's gift to the left, Jane Fonda)
To: Scarlett156
We always get a Weather Calendar from our LP supplier, with this type of rare pics. I always send a “thank-you” card because it is my favorite.
To: Scarlett156
Global warming pillars. Sign that the End is near.
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posted on
01/20/2022 8:27:09 AM PST
by
SaxxonWoods
(If It Aint Woke Don't Fix It.)
To: SJackson
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01/20/2022 8:28:20 AM PST
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gitmo
(If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
To: Seruzawa
TTINLU
This Thread Is No Longer Useless
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01/20/2022 8:30:01 AM PST
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Kevmo
(I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
To: gloryblaze
It bothers me how some photographers put their name in the middle of the pic, a shouting byline.
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01/20/2022 8:31:42 AM PST
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Loud Mime
(A living and breathing Constitution empowers evil; living and breathing Commandments do was well. )
To: Loud Mime
And attempts to manipulate the scale to make objects bigger than they are.
Same when they pose people 20 ft behind a critter they shot to make the animal appear huge.
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01/20/2022 8:40:25 AM PST
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Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
To: SaxxonWoods
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posted on
01/20/2022 8:43:02 AM PST
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Scarlett156
(All right... now, if you will: When did Mr Manson start to seem like he wasn't your ideal boyfriend?)
To: Kevmo
When can we send the manicurist?
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01/20/2022 8:44:23 AM PST
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Scarlett156
(All right... now, if you will: When did Mr Manson start to seem like he wasn't your ideal boyfriend?)
To: Scarlett156
I would suppose, when those things start growing fingernails...
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01/20/2022 8:46:33 AM PST
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Kevmo
(I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
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01/20/2022 8:53:25 AM PST
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DoodleBob
(Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
To: Scarlett156; Deaf Smith
How big are these things? Are they just an inch tall?
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01/20/2022 9:00:44 AM PST
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aquila48
(Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
To: Scarlett156
Those are built by tiny little druids dragging grains of stone over vast distances then arranging them into monuments for celestial observations and the marking of the seasons.
Or, something.
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01/20/2022 9:03:13 AM PST
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outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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