631 - Piramidi di Terra
Today we got steam rolled by the fog.
The only objective of this adventure was to get a shot of the Piramidi di Terra, which directly translates to “Earth Pyramids” in English. These absolute beauties have been on my photography bucket list as long as I can remember, ever since I saw a photo of one go viral on reddit years back.
They’re basically rocks that were chillin’ on the ground thousands of years ago, but over time, the surface below them eroded in such a way that they’re now hovering on thin stacks of dirt.
The crazy thing is that this type of geological phenomenon can’t happen everywhere, or we’d be living on a planet of sweet floating rocks. It can only happen with glacial clay, when left to sit in conditions of alternating rain and dry spells. The force of rock holds the clay in place, while the weather does its thing over the course of thousands of years.
The odds of this happening are near zero, but it does happen in some remote places- like on the trail conveniently located 30 minutes from our hotel in Ortisei, Italy. The odds of me getting a photo of it in the fog, however, felt even slimmer.
Having grown up in Colorado, one of the driest places in North America, misty days were few and far between. But this wasn’t Colorado, Dorthy. This was the Dolomites, where fog was as common as a cow with a bell collar.
Upon our arrival, it was dead empty. Not a single fog in sight. But within minutes, we were graced with a gift from the fog gods themselves:
I took three different shots to account for the landscape and portrait work flows- and both looked so good I couldn’t figure out which one to post.
Enjoy.
