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Hanging Rock (formally known as Mount Diogenes), in central Victoria, Australia, is a distinctive geological formation, 718m above sea level (105m above plain level) on the plain between the two small townships of Newham and Hesket, approximately 70 km north-west of Melbourne and a few kilometres north of Mount Macedon, a former volcano. Best known as the site where a party of schoolgirls disappeared in February 1900 in the fictional story Picnic at Hanging Rock, Hanging Rock is located within the Wurundjeri nation's territory.
Hanging Rock is a mamelon, created 6.25 million years ago by stiff magma pouring from a vent and congealing in place. Often thought to be a volcanic plug, it is not. Two other mamelons exist nearby, created in the same period: Camels Hump, to the south on Mount Macedon and, to the east, Crozier's Rocks.[citation needed] All three mamelons are made of solvsbergite, a form of trachyte only found in two or three other places in the world. As Hanging Rock's magma cooled and contracted it split into rough columns. These weathered over time into the many pinnacles that can be seen today.
Hanging Rock contains numerous distinctive rock formations, including the "Hanging Rock" itself (a boulder suspended between other boulders, under which is the main entrance path), the Colonnade, the Eagle and the UFO. The highest point on Hanging Rock is 718 metres above sea level and 105 metres above the plain below. Hanging Rock is located within the Wurundjeri nation's territory but they exercised a custodial responsibility on behalf of the surrounding tribes in the Kulin nation. It was a site of male initiation and as such entry was forbidden except those young males being taken there for ceremonial initiation. After colonial settlement the Aboriginal people of the area were quickly dispossessed and forced out of the area by 1844. However one last initiation ceremony was held there in approximately November 1851 by a Wurundjeri Elder from the Templestowe area in the Yarra Valley. This ceremony was also attended by two young settlers' children, Willie Chivers, 11, and his younger brother Tom, 7, who were being cared for on a daily basis by the tribe after their mother had died. Their father went missing after looking for their mother. (Wikepedia excerpt)
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This was not easy because of the exposure difference between the upper and lower parts of the shot. I did two HDR images, balanced the exposures by eye, converted them to TIFFs and then ran the stitch in Photoshop.
See the ghost bird? It flew in on one of the upper frame exposures.
Directly above the rock is huge Celebrity Cruise ship that had just pulled out of Victoria harbor about 30 minutes previous. The 28mm wide on the G10 makes things small in the distance.
This is the thing about HDR. It gives you a better chance to convey a moment the way you enjoyed it with your eyes, adjusting exposure on the many parts of a scene, taking it all in. It is just photographic technology, not the "bastardization" some camera purists make it out to be. These same purists might be shocked to learn some of the darkroom tricks of their heroes. Photography does not end the moment the light hits film or sensor. At least, not for ME it doesn't ;-)
Sentinel Rock on the right with Union Point on the left emerging from the clouds with a fresh dusting of snow reflecting off of the Merced River on a cold, cloudy, snowy February afternoon, Yosemite National Park.
Top left: A corniform above a rectangle, with four thin lines stretching away as if the legs of a cow. This may be an attempt to add detail to the description of cow, or a visual description of a raw-hide pelt being stretched. An alternative might be that the rectangular body is a hut with the 'legs' as tethering ropes and the horns are entrance fencing delimiting and protecting from wind and sun - a 'farmyard' work area.
Top right: one of Mont Bégo's most enigmatic petroglyphs comes from Fontanalba's 'Voie Sacrée' and seems to defy analysis. The lines are thought through, and with so much lifestyle description assigned to the Mont Bégo petroglyphs, one feels that there must be a slot for the image in a pastoral context: Stretching leather? A hut with guide ropes? And so on. One of the problems here is the 'boundary line' that goes through the design and appears to be part of the image rather than a superimposition.
Possible explanations:
1. A fridge. There is a simple mountain structure of the Pyrenees called a 'houn'. Here, a cold spring of mountain water flows through a dark stone hut, and any heat inside is transferred to the flowing water. Naturally, the environment inside the hut becomes cold enough to preserve milk products, often as they are assembled prior to transformation into curd, butter and cheese. The principle of heat transfer is similar to that at the back of a fridge and indeed 'houns' are archaic fridges. The pilgrims of Mont Bégo had cows in their lifestyle and transforming their milk into cheese would be within the date range. Just such a proto-houn might assure quantities necessary for cheese production during hot periods, and the stone steps or ledges aside the directed spring water may be pictured here covered by a stretch of taught leather attached to two long poles.
2. A ceremonial space. It seems safe to say that Mont Bégo's largely Bronze age population were walking into the barren non agricultural zone around Mont Bégo to show the mystical mountain the proud qualities of their life and culture - in effect asking for blessing and 'dialogue'. Today we see the zone's favoured rock surfaces ornamented with a diverse array of schematic images. With the weather shutting down the area for seasons of snow and storms, it becomes possible to suspect that there was a preferred period of pilgrimage - lets say at the time of the golden larch trees around October. Tools and people might all wish to be 'seen' and blessed and one of the mankind's traditional means of blessing is with water. Might this be the image of a temporary shrine for seasonal pilgrims? Here the image may be of a natural spring directed into a ditch and made to pass through a very simple roofed building. It is possible that there are two long poles and that an attempt was made to describe 'uprights' - here drawn vastly before the rules of perspective as flattened right angles. Flat representations of dimension can be verified from an Iron age site to the north (rock 23 Naquane) which depicts an early cart and as the wheels are easy to identify and less ambiguous than straight lines, the principle of 'flat' depiction of height is observed. With this interpretation, the roof is held-up by six posts aside a second smaller building, away from the stream, which would in turn be held up by four posts.
With 'pilgrims' leaving very little outside of the petroglyphs, there is also a possibility that a sacred water spring was located away from Mont Bégo, and that the element was in truth as far away as the described field systems and tools and simply 'taken' to the sacred site as an image idea. Tools, children, young animals might all have been offered sacred water aside rites and ritual.
3. Tanning. Cattle can be used for reserves in extreme conditions, they can be used for their meat, they can be used for their manure (manure cob etc), they can be used for their horns (drinking goblets and measuring devices), and they can be used for their pelt - probably the largest readily available. A large pelt can be one trimmed cover without seams, or a source for multiple smaller products apt for the lifestyle of the whole clan. Leather cord, leather ornament, leather cloths, leather coverings and full leather covered huts can all be envisaged by crofters as they look after even a small number of domesticated cows.
I only saw a small selection of the petroglyphs of Mont Bégo, and in the literature there are discussions of subsets of glyphs that may show stretched pelts. With this image, the stretching, if that is the case, is not as one might expect. The classic image is of a hide stretched evenly on a frame or with multiple pegs (Roberto Rosselini recreated a prehistoric village for one of his films where the stretching leathers were integrated onto hut roofs). If huts were covered in leather, and many of the corniforms are in fact depictions of huts with fence 'farmyards', then cow leather will have been used at its maximum size. Tanning requires large quantities of water, a product (urine, salt solutions, lime) and plenty of repeated 'lissage'. Here a large pelt may have been made temporarily manageable for one 'tanner' by being temporarily sewn into a cylinder. Two long poles could thread through the cylinder and be pulled taught. With this interpretation a drainage ditch or 'rigole' passes under the pelt so that fresh water can constantly be scooped.
Here, the canal here would have been a straight line with a right angle and this does not seem immediately logical. I have seen drainage canals on mountain slopes doing just this. A spring feeds the ditch rather than making the field generally boggy. The ditch then cuts perpendicular across the slope, and in so doing, it catches additional ground water that can be riddling down the slope. Before it overflows the ditch turns back down the slope at an angle and drier pastoral land is preserved within.
Of the three options, the 'fridge' needs data on ancient cheese production in the area. The ceremonial holy spring needs data on this potential representation of vertical posts, and the tanning loop is weakened by depictions of central 'ropes' that seem difficult to explain.
Lower left. Hyperbolic horns, a square body shape, legs like guide ropes and an apparent 'farmyard' where there might be a tail, all suggest that the abstract form of a cow might have been employed as a hut archetype. My work on 'transport dragons' explains how pelts over frames might have helped man navigate the extremes of the ice age. That these mobile structures took on the character from fauna and myth is also to be expected. Culture is not genetic and can survive as a memory even after waves of migration. Sedentary populations holding onto the traditions of a collective consciousness may feel that it is quite natural for their practical huts to resemble an animal. Domestication also added the mind of man to the animal, and was a lifestyle that required constant training and reflection. The cow/hut symbol may have perfectly reflect this inter relation.
Lower right: The closest of the four images to the pelt of a cow - but there are still differences: the horns, the tail and even the general shape do not alight to an image of a pelt. The argument here is that the image is not descriptive but instead communicates the principles of 'cow', and this may well be the case. An alternative explanation may seem idiotic, but needs to be considered, and is that the square of the 'cows' body is once again a small building, but this time for the distribution of feed for young calves or winter hay, and that the legs and tails are calves feeding with their heads tucked into the building's sweet smelling feed, in what may have been at the time an amusing image from the cycle of life.
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"WHAT'S THAT?" Danger Ted demanded, keeking out from his winter hibernation quarters in his Big Pal's jacket .
"What's what?"
"That scary thing over there with the HUGE teeth."
"Oh that, DT. that's just a rock that the people in Millport paint to look like a big crocodile."
"A rock painted like a crocodile! And why, BP, was I not informed of this?"
"To tell you the truth, DT, I was wondering why you had never demanded to see it before."
"INVESTIGATE AT ONCE!"
Once he had decided that the Crocodile Rock was not scary a all, Danger Ted insisted on enacting a daring "saving a damsel bear in distress" scenario.
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"God is one."
~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib
The Dome of the Rock (Arabic: مسجد قبة الصخرة, translit.: Masjid Qubbat As-Sakhrah, Hebrew: כיפת הסלע, translit.: Kipat Hasela, Turkish: Kubbetüs Sahra) is an Islamic prayer house, it remains one of the more popularly known landmarks of Jerusalem. It was built between 687 and 691 by the 9th Caliph, Abd al-Malik making it the oldest extant Islamic building in the world. The Rock under the Dome was the first praying direction for Muslims before Mecca. Next to the Dome of the Rock lies the congregation building of Al-Aqsa Mosque both lie within the vicinity of what Jews and Christians call Har ha-Bayit (Hebrew: הר הבית) or the Temple Mount.
(Information obtained from Wikipedia)
This shot from the adventure I got to take with MBesantPhoto and WJMcIntosh all over Shenandoah National Park. Decided to share a color version as Mike's B&W version is just outstanding. Please check it out here: Black Rock Summit
RI #194's train one mile east of Reinbeck, IA on 12-3-1978 coming out of the cut known as 'The Bluffs.'
Whitehouse Picnic Area, Madera Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains / Pima County, Arizona
This male Red Rock Skimmer is the 8th lifer ode that I have seen and photographed on this southeastern Arizona trip that my twin brother and I began on August 18. The reflections on the rock that it chose to perch on creates an 8 wing illusion.
A canyon-edge view of Spider Rock on a winter evening
- Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona
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Rock on the beach....shot with 120mm Hasselblad lens, Acros film and lith printed on ancient single weight Polycontrast paper
Red Rock Canyon, Las Vegas, NV.
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from the "late fall in the valley" day from a while back. It's a bit different now - hopefully some photos of that coming soon.
Prisma, ArtStudio / iPhone Proximity image mix. Three or more layers/images.....chosen primarily by their close proximity to one another on my camera roll
This is one of the many unusual rock formations on the north edge of Antelope Island within the Great Salt Lake. Not sure how these structures were formed. This one got nicknamed "Skull Rock" by our group partly because it looks like a kind of skull. More importantly, however, a kid, not in our group, was climbing on this and fell. He hit his skull on a nearby rock and started bleeding. This the name, Skull Rock.
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I've make it onto the top of Indian Rock. Looking west towards the Rondout Valley and the town of Ellenville, New York. On the mount to the right of the village downtown area below, used to be the location of the place of my youth, a large piece of property and summer bungalow resort that my family owned and ran (now sold). I spent my summers up there and it always brings me back to look upon it and to revisit it.
Rock has important significance in human evolution and civilization. Human decisive step from ape to human transition is to use the tool, and an important source of early human tool is rock, therefore, the first period of human civilization, is known as the Stone Age. Rock has always been important to human life and production of materials and tools.