If you’re an Earth scientist you probably have thousands of photographs from your travels and, among all the shots documenting geologic features from the field, are a handful of images that you are proud of from an artistic point of view. Perhaps a photograph that captures the majesty of a mountain range during an afternoon storm. Or maybe a beautiful and unique close-up of intricate natural patterns in the rocks. We are looking for those images that have both geologic and aesthetic value. An image that communicates the wonder of geology but also makes the non-geologist say “wow, what a beautiful shot!”

Send us up to two of your best photographs, and we will choose 10 to be featured in a gallery here on Wired.com. The photograph must be your own. Please include a brief caption (a couple of sentences) with information about the location and feature(s) in the image. Submit a low-resolution image as attachment or a link to Flickr, Picasa, etc. to brian at clasticdetritus dot com by Wednesday, March 30, 2011, to participate.

Image: Torres del Paine National Park, Chile (Brian Romans/Flickr)

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