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Colorful toes

This is one of the scenes on the way to the John Day Painted Hills unit. I got a bit tired of all the blue skies (no clouds), so I added the clouds from another picture I had.

I keep thinking I have enough pictures of the John Day Painted Hills, and then I go back and can't resist taking more.

John Day Fossil Beds National Monument protects one of the longest and most continuous records of evolutionary change and biotic relationships in North America.

Here, scientists have unearthed countless fossils of land plants and animals dating back 6 to 54 million years as well as evidence of the dramatic climatic changes that have occurred.

The monument includes over 14,000 acres found in 3 widely separated units, the Sheep Rock Unit, Painted Hills Unit, and Clarno Unit. All 3 units are in the John Day River Basin, a major tributary of the Columbia River and the longest undammed river that flows into the Columbia today.

Deep ravines and eroded, fossil-bearing formations bisect the steep mountainous terrain. The monument lies within the Blue Mountain physiographic province in northeast Oregon. With average rainfall in the 9-16 inch range,due to the rain shadow effects from the Cascades and Ochoco Mountains to the west, it is categorized as a semi-arid climate. Elevations run from 2,000 to 4,500 feet within the John Day Fossil Beds and much of the precipitation for the area comes as snow in the winter.

Taken in: United States / Oregon / Seward (show map)

Taken on: April 22, 2012

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Camera: Canon EOS 50D, f/6.3, 1/400 sec, 27mm, ISO 125 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 50D
Lens:	18-270mm
Aperture:	f/6.3
Exposure Time:	0.003 sec (1/400)
Focal Length:	27mm
ISO:	125
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS5 Windows
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