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There are some interesting rocks in the rock pools but if you fall on one it really hurts..... take care!
Award Tree challenge 134 - ' Movie Night! '
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*For those of you outside of the UK who don't know what 'rock' is, it's a type of stick-shaped boiled sugar confectionery! :-)
Bow Fiddle Rock is a natural sea arch near Portknockie on the north-eastern coast of Scotland. It is so called because it resembles the tip of a fiddle bow. It is composed of Quartzite, a metamorphic rock which was originally quartz sandstone
Floating Rock, The Narrows, Zion National Park, UT.
The 'Holy Grail' for me on this trip to Utah - at last I managed to hike all the way to Floating Rock.
It actually didn't look that interesting as I approached from downstream, but once I was on the upstream side the light was wonderful.
#MacroMondays #Rock #Stone
A small piece of natural Himalayan rock salt. This unrefined rock salt is mined primarily from the Khewra Salt Mine in Pakistan, and gets its distinctive pink hue from trace minerals such as iron oxide. It comes from ancient marine evaporite deposits buried near the foothills of the Himalayas.
Being translucent halite, I shone some light through it using my multi-purpose “Starry Night/Milky Way” projector—giving this little chunk of salt a rather unexpected second life.
And of course, that immediately made me think of Richard “Rocky” Hardcastle from the wonderful British sitcom As Time Goes By, with his memorable “Rock on!” catchphrase.
One of the many great shows the British produced. 😊 Dad's Army, A fine Romance etc.
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This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
from "The Hollow Men" (1925) a poem by T. S. Eliot.
in miniature :)
A rare departure for me, I ventured into the digital world to make a photo for Macro Mondays. The theme is balance, a concept that resonates with me. Thanks to Pierre for letting me use his camera and lens. HMM
Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: Nikon 50mm f1.8 AF
Processing: Converted to B&W in Photoshop CC Default setting applied.
Proverbs 14:26 “Rock-solid security is found in the fear of the LORD, and within it one’s children find refuge.”
A colorful locomotive consist leads Burlington Northern Santa Fe HKCKPAS westbound through Rock Creek between Bonita and Clinton, Montana, over MRL’s Third Subdivision on October 15, 2000. MRL No. 301, a former Clinchfield/CSX SD45-2 leads the train. Trailing are BN SD60M No. 9214, BNSF GP39M No. 2876, former Santa Fe SD45-2 No. 6471 and GE B40-8 No. 8616. The empty grade between the train and the Clark Fork is Milwaukee Road’s Pacific Extension right-of-way. For 35 years until 2018, Rock Creek was popular in some circles for its annual ‘Testicle Festival’ known as ‘Testy Fest’ each summer at the Rock Creek Lodge, that featured a wild celebration surrounding music, beer and consumption of ‘Rocky Mountain Oysters.’ Their advertising once stated, “You’ll have a ball! If you miss it, you’re nuts!”
Conrail mixed freight makes its way through this rock-cut before it assaults the ruling grade.
I used a tilt/shift lens to tilt the focus along the plane of the train itself. I wanted to separate the train from the foreground rock a little, make it feel like there was more real-life distance going on there, even at f/13.
Nikkor-PC 85mm f/2.8 Tilt/Shift
Namtso is one of the three holy lakes in Tibet and significant for Tibetan Buddhists. Kora is a Tibetan word that means "circumambulation" or "revolution". Kora is both a type of pilgrimage and a type of meditative practice in the Tibetan Buddhism. Thus, Namtso Kora means pilgrimage walk around the Lake Namtso.
Namtso literally means heavenly lake in Tibetan language. Located around 240km northwest of Lhasa, capital of Tibet, it takes four hours’ driving from Lhasa. Extending 70 km from east to west and 30 km from south to north, the lake covers an area of 1,920 sq km and has an altitude of 4748 m above sea level. It is biggest lake in Tibet and the second biggest salt lake in China as well as one of the highest lakes in the world. The water in the lake is crystally clear and blue. The blue sky joins the surface of the lake in the distance, creating an integrated, scenic vista.
In every Tibetan year of sheep, thousands of Tibetan Buddhism believers will come here to worship this sacred lake. As a rule, they will walk clockwise along the Namtso Lake in order to receive the blessing of the gods.
There are several fine Tibet treks around the lake. The shortest one is roughly 4 kilometers and takes less than one hour. It starts from the accommodation area to a hermit’s cave hidden behind a large spinter of rock. The kora continues to a rocky promontory of cairns and prayer flags. At the promontory, pilgrims undertake a ritural washing in the lake. And then the trail continues past several caves and a prostration point where there are two rock towers looking like two hands. Pilgrims squeeze into the deep slices of the nearby cliff face as a means of sin detection or drink water dripping from cave roofs, even swallow holy dirt.
London Calling is the third studio album by the English rock band the Clash, originally released as a double album in the United Kingdom on 14 December 1979.
The album's cover photograph by Pennie Smith became one of the most recognisable images, and Q magazine later cited it as the "best rock 'n roll photograph of all time". During this period, The Clash began to be regularly billed as "The Only Band That Matters". The album's front cover features a photograph of bassist Paul Simonon smashing his Fender Precision Bass against the stage at the Palladium in New York City on 20 September 1979.
Like many early punk bands, The Clash protested against monarchy and aristocracy, but unlike many of their peers, they rejected nihilism. Instead, they found solidarity with a number of liberation movements and were involved with groups such as the Anti-Nazi League. At their performance on 30 April 1978 at the Rock Against Racism concert in London's Victoria Park for a crowd of between 50,000 and 100,000 people,[127] Strummer wore a T-shirt identifying two far-left armed militant groups: Italy's Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse, misspelt as Brigade Rosse on the T-shirt) and West Germany's Red Army Faction. (from Wikipedia)
London Calling: youtu.be/bqUxD97J6J4?si=fnN47oqv4-YzAsWm
"Rock'n'roll is an attitude, not a musical or formal style. It identifies the way you do things: writing can be rock, just as shooting a film is. It's a way of life."
(Lester Bangs)
The Union Pacific acquired two groups of GP40s from EMD, in 1966 and 1970, and leased them to the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad. Two of the leased units have migrated back to the Union Pacific rails, due to the bankruptcy, shutdown, and liquidation of the Rock Island. Salt Lake City • May 25, 1980
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On the same evening as the juvenile meadow pipits I also found a juvenile rock pipit living up to it's name on the rocks at Cemlyn
Such endearing little birds. A walk up the Otira Valley Track is well worth it, especially when rewarded with a sighting of this nationally endangered bird. The endemic Rock Wren remains above the bush line throughout its life and is the only truly alpine bird in New Zealand.
Red Rock Outcropping. © Copyright 2021 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
A variety of plantlife growing on a red rock outcropping, Zion National Park.
Utah red rock country is full of little vignettes like this one, no matter where you are. the photograph comes from Zion National Park, but it could have been made in any number of other locations where the sandstone formations appear. This California photographer, used to the relatively gray tones of Sierra granite, cannot get enough of the wild colors of this state.
I made this photograph on a morning when we drove across Zion National Park highlands on the Mt. Carmel Highway. Changes along this route, which can only assume the park service regards as improvements, have made photography considerably more difficult here. Many places where I used to be able to pull over and photograph are now off limits. That problem aside, we still did find places to stop and photograph in the brilliant morning sun, a very different experience than photographing in Zion Canyon or other deep and shaded places.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.