Balanced Rock is one of the most popular features of Arches National Park, situated in Grand County, Utah, United States.

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Battered but beautiful blooms in a bitty bucket balanced on books with a background of bubbleluscious bokeh.

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Here's Balanced Rock in Arches National Park, Utah. This is one of the first locations that I wanted to shoot on the 5th night of my tour of the southwest. Wayne and I arrived here at around 11:00 but didn't start shooting until around 1:00 due to cloud cover but that gave wayne and I some time to share some tips in lightroom and photoshop. I've seen thousands of photos of this location and was really in a quandary about how to compose this shot. I've always been a fan of filling the frame and due to the location of the MW this is the composition I ended up with.

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Macro Mondays 03/12/18 theme Balance

As you probably realise balancing ball bearings is near on impossible but as they are steel they are also magnetic.I placed a strong magnet under a metal plate and then stacked the bearings.It still took a little time to get them balanced but it was a better result than trying to stick them together.

I didn't set this up - just found it that way. I took this photo, and moved on. I wonder how long these rocks remained stacked?

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Balanced Rock - Arches National Park

Nature is balanced on its own. How about human being ? 😉

Balanced life: Photographing, workout, housework, work... Hope all mixed and balanced 😉

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Three miniature stools made for a dolls house, but great for macro shooting!

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Balanced Rock just before the heavens opened.

Taken @ Orust

Arches National Park, near Moab, Utah

Black-shouldered Kite (Elanus axillaris) juvenile

One of the chicks enjoying a mouse for lunch.

Arches National Park, Moab, Utah, USA

Headlights from a car lit up the iconic formation there in Arches nicely as I took this capture of the Milky Way.

Balanced Rock and a beautiful night sky at Arches National Park, Utah. The Balanced Rock formation is 128 feet tall.

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“When the objects we use every day and the surroundings we live in have become in themselves a work of art, then we shall be able to say that we gave achieved a balanced life.”

― Bruno Munari

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Australian White Ibis (Threskiornis molucca)

Another from a wande along the Werribee River Park in March last year.

Arches Nt. Park, Utah USA

Arches National Park, Utah

Speckled Wood | Pararge aegeria | Nymphalidae

Samsung NX1 & Kiron 105mm f/2.8 Macro

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Located in the Arches NP, Utah

The setting sun had added an extra tinge to the reddish hued rock.

Balanced Rock is one of the most popular features of Arches National Park, Utah, USA.

Standing 128 ft (39 mts) tall and said to weigh 3600 tons (over 4 million kgs).

Camera: Canon Eos 6D

Lens: EF24-105mmF/4L-IS-USM

Aperture: f/22

Focal Length: 90 mm

Shutter Speed: 1/80

ISO: 250

Here is a little more original take of this iconic location there in Utah with the sunburst and my younger daughter and her boyfriend there next to the rocky structure. They give a real sense of scale of Balanced Rock.

Egg life

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