Petrified wood blocks set in mortar in the wall of Agate House, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona

Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona

Cornerstone

At Agate House in Petrified Forest National Park, the walls are built from blocks of petrified wood. Up close, the corner reveals something easy to miss from a distance: where the wood was split, the agate inside is still exposed, holding onto its bands of color and the faint suggestion of the tree it once was.

I framed the corner tightly, letting the geometry of the masonry meet the organic patterns trapped inside the stone. It felt like a small collision between architecture and geology—something built by people from something shaped by millions of years.

Nikon Z 7II · Nikkor Z 14-24mm · 24mm · f/3.2 · 1/320 sec · ISO 64

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