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The water is completely frozen, the blue colour is created by the sky's reflections.
The fall color at Rock Bridge in the Red River Gorge looked really good this year. The low water levels created super clear reflections that caught my eye when exploring compostions around the area.
The sands of the Lower Antelope Canyon are forming an absolutely stunning textured rock passage that leads deeper in to the Labyrinth
A trip around the Freycinet Peninsular from Coles bay to wineglass bay in Tasmania. We were going to walk in but Ian strained a leg muscle, however the boat trip was infinitely better as we saw some amazing scenery and learnt much about the district and it's geological history. [straight out of the camera the colours are natural, just mother nature showing off again]
Chitons (pronounced ‘kite-ons’) are enigmatic and fascinating marine invertebrates. They are known from fossils dating back at least 300 million years, and have changed little with the passing of time
Chitons belong to the phylum Mollusca (along with sea snails, sea slugs and bivalves), and are sometimes known as ‘coat-of-mail shells’, which alludes to their carapace of eight overlapping and interlocking plates that resemble the chain mail sported by knights of old. They have small heads, and a lack of tentacles and eyes means it’s not always obvious which end is which.
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Rock City Barn
HWY 19 (Main St)
Bryson City
Swain County, NC
There is nothing richer in Southern History than Rock City barns. I have seen these all my life and even visited Rock City, a few years ago because of the signs.
We came across this one yesterday while taking an afternoon drive, just out of Bryson City, NC
In 1935, Clark Byers worked for Fred Maxwell, owner of an advertising company in Chattanooga, TN. Maxwell had been working with Garnet Carter, owner of Rock City Gardens, to come up with an advertising plan to promote the gardens. They came up with the idea of painting signs on barns. During the next three decades, Clark Byers and his helpers painted around 900 barns in 19 states. All their work was done freehand.
48203, 48215 and 48218 pass 'The Rock', the infamous rock named after the small town of The Rock, as 3926 loaded grain train from Boree Creek to Junee Sub Terminal.
8166 was attached at The Rock and the 3 48s were swapped for a 2nd 81 at Junee for the run to Inner Harbour.
Wednesday 7th March 2018
Rock formation and tidewater... seen at Seal Rock State Recreation Site park & beach - U.S. state of Oregon.
Didn't see any seals though.
Rock Island CC119 at Roosevelt Road in Chicago, Illinois on an unknown day in March 1980, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Built by Pullman Standard in 1970, this was one of five smooth-side Control Cabs ( #'s CC115 - CC119 ) on the Rock Island, later, Metra 7881-7885. The cabs were deactivated on the Metra, turning them into coaches. The blue sign at the end door reads: SUB LINE 5:18. This train is seen leaving La Salle Street Station, presumably around 5:18 PM.
Last week a strong southerly change was forecast and the cloud build up signaled this change in weather was close. We drove to Cave Rock located on Sumner Beach in Christchurch and were able to just catch the sunlit rock against the darkening clouds. We were lucky as the light was only like this for a few minutes.
I followed my visit with some research on the small round building and mast built on the top of the rock. During Canterbury’s early years heavy goods could not be transported from Lyttelton over the Port Hills, so they were taken to Christchurch by small coastal vessels that crossed the Sumner sand bar into the Estuary, and unloaded freight at a wharf in Ferrymead. Crossing the sand bar was dangerous and a number of vessels were lost. In 1864 the Canterbury Provincial Government erected a signal mast on top of Cave Rock to enable a pilot to signal the state of the tides to ships using black and white canvas balls hung off the mast. The stone signal station on top of Cave Rock was constructed later in 1898, so this building is 124 years old. In addition to housing the signal equipment, it also contained a fog horn to summon the crew of the Sumner lifeboat when needed. Canterbury Library has a photo from 1900 showing the lifeboat stored in the cave with a launch ramp to the sea. In the 1930’s signal lights on the mast replaced the canvas balls.
I stumbled across this recently taken near the lighthouse at Ardnamurchan Point, Kilchoan, Acharacle, West Scotland. Five years back. I remember wandering down to the rocks as the tide had gone out and panning the camera on the crystal clear waters of the rock pools.
This is the last sculpture in the Barbara Hepworth exhibition, "In Equilibrium" at the Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne, Australia. In 1973 Hepworth celebrated her 70th birthday and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Rock Face marks a return to carving Ancaster stone. The design is simple, with a concave form and the holes of course. These tend to emphasise the two tones in the stone. Although small (just over a metre high), it is a monolithic form reminding us of the ritualistic standing stones in Cornwell's past.
Hepworth herself said of this work, despite never swerving from her abstractness: "You can't make a sculpture without it being a thing - a creature, a figure, a fetish.'
Within two years she was gone. On the night of May 20 1975, Hepworth died when a fire ripped through her home and studio in St Ives.
Rock Island CC115 at La Salle Street Station in Chicago, Illinois on an unknown day in August 1979, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. The blue sign reads - SUB LINE 5:03PM
Here's one from the archives, shot a few months ago in Cornwall (probably the best place to be if you're into seascapes and long exposures). This is Gull Rock, just a little off the coast of Portreath on the north Cornwall coast. This is one of a multitude of images that I've been sitting on for months, trying to figure out how best to treat it. Went in a new direction on this one, not quite sure yet if it's working here. Let me know what you think.
I haven't had much time for photography lately unfortunately. So many things are changing for me with my impending move back to Malaysia. We leave in just over 2 weeks now and packing is in full force. It's amazing how much "junk" you can accumulate without even realizing it! Despite all the stresses and strains, it's a very exciting time right now and I'm grateful for that.
This will probably be my last post for a long while. We are first heading off to California for an extended break, en route to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. All my computer gear is going by sea which means I probably won't "sea" them until at least mid-January (groan, did I really just say that?). Bad puns aside, I will still try to catch up on all of your work every now and then and I hope to see all of you again when I return!
So, until then, happy shooting and take care everyone!
PS: Ugh, Flickr seems to have oversharpened this. The original size looks alright though. Why does it do that?
Finally I managed to shoot some seascapes again. Found this fairly interesting rock formations during a rare calm day in the North Atlantic