Tempus et Patientia

Time and patience are two critical variables to nature getting its act together and displaying something worth capturing. You may sit for hours, waiting for the right light to hit the perfect angle in a landscape shooting expedition. Or, like these examples, nature may slowly assemble something you are lucky enough to stumble over while drifting about.

The first one is a great example of the sedimentary layers of a dune at a nearby beach we frequent. I imagine, with the right calculus, you could figure out how long it took for the different sand slivers to pile up and reveal themselves. The second is a from drainage channel fed by a coastal lake near the other shot that looks like some kind of exotic form of marble or metamorphic rock. This one probably took less time to form, but shares a similar dramatic effect with the sand dune.