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Rock City, north of Valier in North Central Montana along the Two Medicine River.
The area is known for its sandstone pillars often refereed to as hoodoos. The hoodoos have been created from the soft sandstone being eroded away by wind and water. Often a harder layer of stone remains on top of the pillars to give them kind of a mushroom shape. There are hundreds of these hoodoos spread over the landscape above the river’s edge with areas you can walk between them which gives the area the impression of being a city. The pillars raise from just a few feet high to over 20 feet for some of the taller ones.
Also known as rock badger, rock rabbit, and Cape hyrax, is commonly referred to in South African English as the dassie.
Singapore Zoo
Rock Branch, GA (Elbert County) Copyright 2010 D. Nelson
Today I drove to Ruckersville, GA, a few miles east of Elberton. I always wanted to explore that area and my friends Evan and Steven were here recently and both suggested I should go. So I did.
I don't have GPS so I still look at maps - internet and topo - to find places. I thought I had this one figured out but to make sure I stopped in Elberton to ask directions. I followed them and after a lot of driving on winding roads hugging Lake Russell I ended up in Middleton - which was not anywhere near Ruckersville. Curved back to Elberton, where I had a nice talk with Mr. Sanders who runs a litte automotive shop. That story is coming up later. He gave me directions which send me around Elberton twice (I may have misunderstood them). I asked a resident who said she's lived here forever and knows Ruckersville is just 6 miles from here but shamefully admitted she's never been there and does not know how to get there (it turned out to be a straight 6 miles from her house). I asked yet another local who made it very clear I was not to stray from the road he put me on, no matter how tempting it may be, and I will make it to Ruckersville. All four locals said "Ruckersville? There's nothing there but an old store! You will miss it going through." Well, I won't, being on the lookout for this old gas station, which Steven and Evan tagged as "Ruckersville". Bad, bad boys! ;)
When I arrived in Ruckersville, this sign was nowhere to be seen. I drove through the community twice, then took every side road. No sign, but I now know Ruckersville like my back pocket and do not at all consider it a speck on the map. Anyway, at that point I had looked for the sign too long to give up. MilkaWay does not give up easily. I acknowledged my defeat, swallowed my pride and called Steven who thankfully returned my call right away (after I lost the signal - again, not a good place to break down, and this was my Buggy's test drive - will I ever learn?). Turns out the sign was 8 miles further down the road, just short of the South Carolina state line. In a place called Rock Branch.
Thank you Steven for all your help! One funny moment was when you said "just look it up on the net" - easy to do with an iPhone. I think I need one. Or at least GPS. I love flipping the big paper map but it's not always very helpful.
My photo ratio for this day was way off. On a photo trip I usually yield approx. 1 photo per mile driven.Today, I came home with 50 for 200 miles driven. Kinda low on the MilkaWay Harvest Indicator (MHI).
I tried my hand at 8-wide for the first time-well, my first actual attempt, I should say. I ended up doing the hood 4-wide with a plate on each side because 6 was too wide, four wasnt wide enough, and I could never get a 5-wide hood to look decent enough for me. It has room for both the battery box and an IR receiver for PF
Rock Dove
The Rock Dove (doves and pigeons) In common usage, this bird is often simply referred to as the "pigeon".Wild Rock Doves are pale grey with two black bars on each wing, although domestic and feral pigeons are very variable in colour and pattern. There are few visible differences between males and females. Habitats include various open and semi-open environments. Cliffs and rock ledges are used for roosting and breeding in the wild.
Challenging heights of the nature…
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Image photographed in January 2014 compared with photograph of similar area as it appeared in the publicity brochure, “The Waters of Health and Happiness – the book of the White Rock Baths, Hastings”, published by Hastings Corporation White Rock Baths Committee c.1933.
Part of Hastings Library’s local studies collection.
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Taken on the beach at Bruce Bay, some 'rock art' left by visitors them as a memento of their having visited. Such displays were seen at various other places around South Island, but not on such a scale as here. Naturally, we left our mark too. The Tasman Sea breaks onto the beach, where there was hardly another soul around.
Black-spotted Rock Frog (Staurois natator) - Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia
Another Rock Frog from Borneo, despite being a diurnal species this one and others were seen at night sitting on rocks near rapids. The light whitish background for this photo is whitewater from a small series of rapids. I'm not used to seeing frogs in this type of environment so it was cool for me. I wanted to get a shot showing the unusual juxtaposition of frogs and rapids but a variety of factors made it tough. The frogs were skittish, the rock surface was steep and covered with algae which made it slippery, and it was night time. This was the best I managed on this occasion. Different than what I had in mind when I started photographing it but I like the results of this as well.
Next up in my reviewing misadventures over on the Youtubes...is the entrancing Enchantress. Take a look at this adorable little creation from Funko's Rock Candy line...
See the complete video here:
Smedly & i are here during rush hour trying to capture the last summer with E-units .Charging west near 60 mph is Classic E-7's that sounded great !
Cistus x purpureus in Cambria, California
sadly these ornamental hybrids didn't display the gorgeously fragrant resin of the cistus ladanifer wild species but the flowers were perfection.
Pentax K1000
Lester A. Dine (Kiron) 105mm f2.8 Macro
Kodak Portra 400
講到“ROCK”，怎能不提及與「IN/SECTS」同屬關西派的「Talking Rock」（簡稱：TR）呢？奈良出身的編集長吉川尚宏是個標準獅子男，一人独斷独裁地牢牢主掌整本刊物的走向面貌。從2007年創刊至今，持續不懈地應援追蹤關西的搖滾歌手與楽團，比方第二号就以京都天團QURULI作為卷頭表紙代表，激勵剛崛起正準備出道的地方新團。在大阪fm osaka主持深夜音楽節目的他，還不時因為娃娃臉，及造型打扮，而被誤認為20代左右的年輕人，只能說是頻常保持「ONLY ROCK！！」心態活力的人是永遠不顯老的。
The rock formations in Colorado are beautiful. It's amazing how Earth carved these rocks in such neat patterns.
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Following from the previous evening we were up early to see sunrise over Ayers Rock though the most impressive shots are of the red sky near the rock.
Rock fans do not worry, there follows a set of shots taken on a tour around Ayers Rock.
Complex depositional textures in thinly bedded travertine rock (--> see also my explanatory comments in my previous two recently posted images of this rock type, in my "Geology in building stone" album). The fingers are for scale.
This is a cross-sectional view: the plane of polished building stone in this view displays a [vertical] slice through the near-horizontal sedimentary layering (i.e., the plane of view is perpendicular to the layering).
This travertine rock was probably deposited in a hot spring setting: hot water (carrying chemical compounds in solution) flowed up a fault/fracture (or other groundwater conduit) to the ground [paleo-]surface; the water spilled and flowed outward, precipitating carbonates (and/or other minerals) repeatedly over time and thus building up layers and mounds of mineral matter. Some areas periodically dried out and cracked (desiccation, erosion), providing locally derived fragments that were later moved by surface water flows (transport, deposition). In the photo above, the thick white layers are precipitated carbonate mineral (some with radiating crystal texture), and most of the darker bands have a fragmental texture (locally derived, intraclastic grains), with many coated grains (concentrically layered, from repeated episodes of precipitation of carbonate on the grains).
Some of this layering might have been biologically influenced by bacteria; thermophilic bacteria are now well known from hot springs, and their cryptic (not-always-obvious) role in producing very thin layering (lamination) can be important. (When carbonate sedimentologists are fairly sure that bacteria/microbes were involved, the thinly layered rocks can be termed "microbial laminites.")
Good examples of hot springs that form this kind of rock today are found at Mammoth Hot Spring (Yellowstone National Park, northwest Wyoming), USA and Pamukkale, Turkey -- photos of these sites are easily found online, including here on Flickr.
We geologists are usually careful in our interpretations, and it is worth noting that other depositional settings, such and cold water springs (in lake and river settings), carbonate tidal flats, and caves can deposit similar-looking layered rocks.
C. J.R. Devaney
Taken during a boat trip from Arbroath.
The Bell Rock lighthouse is Britain's oldest rock lighthouse and was first lit in February 1811 (construction started in 1807). It was the first time that anyone had attempted to build a rock tower on a reef which is submerged for most of the day.
The main credit for the design of the lighthouse has historically gone to Robert Stevenson (the grandfather of Robert Louis Stevenson), however John Rennie the famous civil engineer may also have influenced its design.
The lighthouse was automated in 1988. It was recently painted and looks a lot tidier than it did when I took this picture.
A number of events are planned in Arbroath for the 200th anniversary in 201, for more information on the Year of the Light visit www.angusahead.com/bellrocklighthouse
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Taken on August 27, 2010 at 10.22pm
Posted to Flickr September 14, 2010 at 8.47
Exif data
Camera Canon EOS 7D
Exposure 320 seconds
Aperture f/3.5
Focal Length 18 mm
ISO Speed 100
Both the black (basalt) and white (quartz) parts of this rock are quite hard. This is part of the surface of one of the rough cut boulders piled on both sides of the cut between St. George Island and Little St. George. This kind of rock is not from this area, maybe it came from the mountains of Georgia or Alabama. These colors, although changed to black and white, are very close to how they looked to my eyes.