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Legend, the Trolls were turned to stone when they were cast in the light of the rising sun. Vik Iceland.
Red Rock Canyon is a maze of canyons and peaks, ledges and chimneys, chutes and gullies leading to surprises around every wall.
Have no idea what this is. My parents bought it at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show in 2005. They said it was from a vendor from India, I think.
Balanced Rock is one of the most popular features of Arches National Park, situated in Grand County, Utah, United States. Balanced Rock is located next to the park's main road, at about 9 miles (14.5 km) from the park entrance.
The total height of Balanced Rock is about 128 feet (39 m), with the balancing rock rising 55 feet (16.75 m) above the base. The big rock on top is the size of three school buses. Until recently, Balanced Rock had a companion - a similar, but much smaller balanced rock named "Chip Off The Old Block", which fell during the winter of 1975/1976.
Balanced Rock can be seen from the park's main road. There is also a short loop trail leading around the base of the rock.
Just past the ruins of Wijiji is a small panel of rock art containing a menagerie of glyphs consisting of both petroglyphs and pictographs.
Chaco Culture National Historical Park
I'm currently working on a model of the Rock Island's Peoria Rocket as it appeared in 1937. The TA is built in pretty much every direction. I'm using panel pieces flipped upside down to cover the motors. This'll need plenty of painted parts, but the end result will look amazing.
Rock Island Railroad 5756 at Blue Island, Illinois on an unknown day in July 1982, Fujichrome by Chuck Zeiler. According to the October 1971 edition of the ORER ( Official Railway Equipment Register ), the Rock Island had 50 cars in the 5750 - 5799 number series, AAR class R206, and ( Note 45 ) "equipped with fork lift truck pallets, platforms or skids, which will be considered as part of the car and are in assigned service." Further, Note 88 states, "Cars in series 5750 to 5799 have 'PS-20' travel cushion underframe, are insulated and equipped with DF-B load divider bulkheads and load side fillers, single 10 ft. plug type sliding door."
The famous Kilt Rock is a sea cliff in north east Trotternish. It is said to resemble a kilt, with vertical basalt columns to form the pleats and intruded sills of dolerite forming the pattern.
This natural rock is in St. Paul bay in Lindos (Rhodes). Some people climb on and jump in to the sea.
I don't really know if the small rock in the surf zone has a name. It's only a few yards long, but the cormorants certainly like congregating there.
It was slightly challenging getting this shot through this rock arch. The tide was coming in and this was the only dry passage between two different parts of the beach. I had to wait some time for people to stop passing through here.
...the mine shafts at Winsford
Getting to the mine workings is a lot easier now than it was in the 19th century. Shafts 1 and 2 were used for almost 130 years until they were sealed in the 1970s. Originally miners were lowered into these shafts by bucket!
Over the years shafts 1 and 2 were replaced by three more shafts.
No 3 Shaft - 3.05m in diameter and 150m deep, was installed in 1941 and was used as a production shaft until the 1970s. Today it has a self-service lift and is used for personnel access.
No 4 Shaft - 4.88m in diameter and 189m deep, is the down cast shaft. This means it is used to draw air into the mine. It is about a mile from No. 3 shaft and was installed in 1963 with a two-tier lift consisting of a cargo compartment and a personnel carrier. The cargo compartment is 7 metres high, 2.4 metres wide and 4 metres deep and brings all the materials and engineering equipment underground. It can carry 15 tonnes. The bigger mechanical items are dismantled to fit into the lift and, once reassembled underground, never leave the mine.
No 5 Shaft - 4.88m in diameter and 164.5m deep, was the last shaft to be installed in 1973. It is used to bring the finished rock salt to the surface, which it does in a series of 9 tonne skips. It takes just over a minute to get one skip of rock salt from the mine to the surface.
The cloud cover was fairly thick on this day to the beach. As I walked by this rock, the composition was there, but the light was too flat. I proceeded down the beach. When the sun started breaking through the cloud cover just at the horizon, I ran back to this scene, and captured it just before the sun set.