Petrified Trees
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Petrified Trees
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture/digital Painting
Description
Petrified Forest National Park is a national park in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona. Named for its large deposits of petrified wood, the park covers about 146 square miles, encompassing semi-desert shrub steppe as well as highly eroded and colorful badlands. The park's headquarters is about 26 miles east of Holbrook along Interstate 40, which parallels the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway's Southern Transcon, the Puerco River, and historic U.S. Route 66, all crossing the park roughly east-west. The site, the northern part of which extends into the Painted Desert, was declared a national monument in 1906 and a national park in 1962. About 600,000 people visit the park each year and take part in activities including sightseeing, photography, hiking, and backpacking.
Some digital effects were added to this image after the original photograph was made. Copyright Jon Burch Photography
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February 14th, 2014
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