Desert Sands

300 million years ago, this rock lay on the equator. The rusty-red swathe of sandstone which runs from the Cleveland hills down to the south coast of Devon was part of the vast super-continent which geologists call Pangea. The landscape may have resembled the present-day deserts of the south-western USA. Landscape photography doesn’t always have to be about the vista. In real life, the area of this picture is little more than a few feet wide by a few feet long. To me, this is quite an intimate scene, but as there is nothing to give the viewer a sense of scale, you have to make your own judgements as to how big the scene is.