Goblin Valley Hoodoos, a photo by Fergiemoto on Flickr. (Click on image to enlarge).
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These unusual and natural formations are called hoodoos, and exist at Goblin Valley State Park. They are the result of soft sandstone eroded over time. The figures actually do look like goblins to me! I like the look of old postcards (especially those I have of Yellowstone National Park) and attempted that effect here.
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I like the composition of this photograph…it does look like a postcard…☺
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Siggi in ‘Downeast Maine
Hi,
That is amazing, they actually look like statues, that is very unusual. 🙂
I love the effect you used as well, it looks great.
Yes, that certainly is unusual.
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Amazing rock formations! I like your haiku.
A lovely photograph. I just love the way you are able to turn a almost ordinary photograph (even if it’s quite some special rock formations) in terms of light and composition into a gem like this. The end result is astonishing and beautiful. By the way for me these hoodoos look like the heads on Easter Island.
It’s a good statue. Well kept. Thank you for sharing.
It is unfathomable how these formation can be natural. They must have been gods and spirits for the ancients.
Stunning! Great entry! 🙂
so many interpretations for those rock figures – I see squatting birds! Excellent image and very worthy accompanying words.
VERY unusual and great entry Fergiemoto! You got the old postcard thing going on beautifully!
Weird and wonderful – fantastic photo!
Fantastically unusual photo and lovely poetry as well! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
This is wonderful… 🙂
Interesting and unusual for sure!
Beautiful!
It’s completely natural? A 64-dollar question.
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Your old postcard effect seems to work. Makes the photo seem from another time.
This reminds me of the 3 wise monkeys…
Definitely unusual! I think the two goblins on the left have had a fight with the one on the right and now they’re muttering darkly about him!
Just shows what nature can do. Nice shot and a good subject to use the mask on
Love it!
You’ve captured these Hoodoos so well and it does look like an old postcard! It’s as if the sandstone erosion has affected the image itself! I like this, a lot.
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Definitely unusual!
What wonderful statues – they look Mayan or at least, very old!
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Very nice!
I love them, they look like perched rocks. 😀
Cool!
Unusual and amazing. Great post.
a terrific entry and the postcard look works perfectly
I love the Hoodoos. You captured them so well in all their magnificence.
Quite bizarre really!! Amazing formations and definitely unusual !
Excellent post as always my friend 🙂
Very unusual and I bet if you put 101 children in front of these figures, they will all come up with different ideas. Goblins, men-birds, vases, noses…
Wonderful image.
superb!
Love it! Quite beautiful and certainly unusual!
Excellent work. Interesting subject. Lovely haiku.
fascinating! thanks for sharing this great click.
These things are amazing! Nice photograph
Amazing work of nature. They too look like Goblin to me. Love the postcard effect and the beautiful poem that goes with it. Thank you for today’s inspiration. take care…
These really are unusual. I wouldn’t have thought these were carved by nature itself.
Love these unusual, yet natural, Goblin Valley Hoodoos. 🙂 And, the old postcard effect takes your wonderful capture over the top! 🙂
something very different and nice!
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Great image! Thank you for sharing. What an interesting formation
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Quite lovely!
Water then wind sculpted these…
This could almost be Cappadochia!