The Petrified Wedding
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The Petrified Wedding, a unique rock formation near Kurdjali, Eastern Rhodope Mountain, Bulgaria. It's hard not to notice the resemblance to people walking in a wedding procession. You can see the groom and the bride in the bottom right-hand corner.
Geologically it was formed from deposited volcanic ash and rock fragments nearly 40 million years ago when the Eastern Rhodope Mountain was a sea bottom. The local legend is very curious: According to local believes, when the wedding procession starts no one must look at the face of the bride because if one does look, he/she will turn to stone immediately. During a wedding procession the wind blew away the bride's veil and all wedding guests turned to stone.
This is a single 40-minutes exposure started after midnight. The star trails resulted from the spinning of the Earth. The Petrified Wedding is moonlit. Check out a more intimate composition of the same place: Fragment of The Petrified Wedding from the very same night.
Geologically it was formed from deposited volcanic ash and rock fragments nearly 40 million years ago when the Eastern Rhodope Mountain was a sea bottom. The local legend is very curious: According to local believes, when the wedding procession starts no one must look at the face of the bride because if one does look, he/she will turn to stone immediately. During a wedding procession the wind blew away the bride's veil and all wedding guests turned to stone.
This is a single 40-minutes exposure started after midnight. The star trails resulted from the spinning of the Earth. The Petrified Wedding is moonlit. Check out a more intimate composition of the same place: Fragment of The Petrified Wedding from the very same night.
