Rock surfaces carry messages from ancient times.

A stone picked up today from a mountain slope and held in one’s hand may have formed fifty million years ago, five hundred million or more. It may have been baked during ages of global warming and frozen under glaciers weight. Who knows what forces shaped its surface.

Geologists are experts at reading these messages by analyzing the mineral composition of rocks. As a photographer I can’t read these messages, but still it’s a pleasure just to look at the shapes of their alphabet from close.