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Ta daa! My tub chair, covered with Colts in goldenrod from my Sevilla Rock range. So happy with the way this one's turned out!
Slick Rock Falls was at the end of the trail where the mushroom was found. More schrooms and falls to follow.
Happy 4th of July!!!
Explored #309
Anyone who ever went to rock club in the 1970's (or later) will recognise this sort of scene, I was sitting on top of the band's equipment flight cases at the time not too far from the RH PA stack. Things got quite loud in those days :- ) When you saw a row of Marshall heads stacked on multiple speaker cabs you knew you were in for ear bashing (even if some of them were spares.....).
This is JB's Club, King Street Dudley, the band "Wild Horses" the date 16/12/78.
The line up at the time was Brian Robertson (Guitar) Jimmy Bain (Bass) and Dixie Lea(Drums), Neil Carter(Guitar), Thanks to Lee Jones for clarifying the line up :-)
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Ayers Rock en de spectaculaire zonsondergang (of zonsopgang). De rots gaat over van warmrood naar donker purper, altijd met een inwendige gloed.
Uluṟu of Ayers Rock is een reusachtige rotsformatie die ongeveer in het midden van Australië ligt, in het Noordelijk Territorium, in een gebied dat wegens de rode kleur van de grond ook bekend staat als het Rode Centrum.
Voor de lokale Aborigines, de Anangu, is Uluṟu een belangrijke religieuze plaats. De rots is verbonden met hun mythologie, de Tjukurpa, ook bekend als Droomtijd. Alle facetten van de rots hebben een bepaalde betekenis en zijn met elkaar verbonden via de mythologie in de Tjukurpa. Bepaalde scheuren in de rots zijn voor de Anangu de overblijfselen van een strijd tussen twee mythologische wezens uit de Droomtijd.
Verschillende kleine gaten worden geassocieerd met holen gegraven door mythologische mollen. Zo vormt de rots als het ware een Bijbel voor de Anangu, die geen schrift hadden om hun mythologie op te schrijven. Er zijn verschillende heilige plekken rondom de rots die een speciale rol spelen bij mannen- of vrouwenrituelen.
Uluru, also referred to as Ayers Rock, is a large sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory, central Australia. It lies 335 km (208 mi) south west of the nearest large town, Alice Springs; 450 km (280 mi) by road. Kata Tjuta and Uluru are the two major features of the Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park. Uluru is sacred to the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara, the Aboriginal people of the area. It has many springs, waterholes, rock caves and ancient paintings. Uluru is listed as a World Heritage Site.
Like most isolated petroglyph rocks in Georgia, Sprayberry Rock is not in-situ. It was moved a hundred feet or so to accommodate a new bank building, in 1984.
There are three prehistoric feature types on the rock. Only one of these features can be associated with a time period. During the Late-Archaic Period (5,000-3,000 years B.P), steatite or soapstone outcrops were quarried to produce bowls and other vessels. Soapstone bowls were traded all over the eastern and mid-western U.S. In Georgia, the bowls were often carved with tools fashioned from diabase (a very hard volcanic rock from instusive dikes found from Atlanta eastward). There are at least seven soapstone bowl preforms or bowl scars ( where a bowl was actually made and removed) on the rock. One preform was in the later stages of completion when abandoned.
The last two prehistoric features can't necessarily be associated with the Late-Archaic Period. Cupules are a poorly understood feature. In some cases they appear to have a utilitarian purpose and are often referred to as nutting holes. In other cases one to several hundred cupules were placed on isolated rocks or outcrops and appear to have no apparent function. Seldom are they arranged in a recognizable pattern. Cupules that appear to have a utilitarian purpose are often on outcrops near streams. It is thought they were used in the processing of nuts and acorns. This activity probably occurred from the Archaic and well into the Woodland Peroid, and possibly later. In come cases, cupules are considered an art form. There are over a dozen cupules on Sprayberry Rock. Their meaning or use is unknown.
The third type of prehistoric feature on Sprayberry Rock is petroglyphs. This is considered an art from. There are at least three images of concentric circles concentrated on one end of the boulder. There are various interpretations on the meaning of concentric circles. It is impossible to determine at which point these circles are produced. If they are associated with the bowl quarrying they are quite old. Concentric circles appear on other isolated petroglyph rocks in Georgia.
I have never seen an archaeological report on Sprayberry Rock. I have no idea if artifacts were recovered before it was moved. For more information: www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/...
My "Rock Star" friends and I got together again to decorate "Happy Rocks" for a local festival. We place them under trees, on a bench, on a fencepost, etc. We've been doing it for 5-6 years now so folks look forward to it! Much fun! :)
I want to give this a different background, but I used to use GIMP and I just bought Photoshop and it's a mystery to me...
This is the only known example of a crozier (a stylized pastoral staff of office) made entirely from rock crystal. This carving had insane amounts of work put into it.
Hanging Rock is a rock formation that rises dramatically from fairly level farmlands near the town of Woodend in Victoria. It is only an hour drive from Melbourne. The rock formations are due to hard rocks that were in the main channel of a volcano, prior to being eroded away over many centuries. Hanging Rock reserve is also famous for the mysterious disappearances of schoolgirls, which was detailed in a book by Joan Lindsay in 1969 and later followed by a movie in the 1970s - Picnic at Hanging Rock. The rocks have many strange formations across a large area at the top of the mountain, so it is quite easy to get disorientated if you wander off the main path. As the place can be quite busy on weekends, you are more likely to get lost in the crowds these days!
My "Rock Star" friends and I got together again to decorate "Happy Rocks" for a local festival. We place them under trees, on a bench, on a fencepost, etc. We've been doing it for 5-6 years now so folks look forward to it! Much fun! :)
THE ROCK CAFE NEON SIGN a Route 66 Landmark - in Stroud Oklahoma Restored and Reopened after the big fire of 2008 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyhkBg8wOBo
The foreground plant is the under-rated native evergreen, Pachistima myrsinites:
"Looking somewhat similar to both the dwarf English Boxwood and Japanese Holly (Ilex crenata), Pachistima (or Paxistima, as it’s also commonly spelled), is a hardy, no-muss-no-fuss low-growing evergreen native shrub worthy of attention. Dark green, slightly toothed leaves are borne in opposite pairs along the prostrate stems. Its truly unique feature is the flower, emerging in clusters appearing at the base of the leaf axils, similar in appearance to Euonymous, rather than boxwood or Japanese holly."
Just behind it and showing some red in the leaves is the Himalayan knotweed or fleece flower, a low growing variation of persicaria:
"Persicaria affinis is an evergreen perennial with a mat-forming habit. Its foliage is narrowly elliptic and dark green in colour, turning bronze in winter. In late summer to autumn it bears dense spikes of small, funnel shaped, rose red flowers which are up to 10cm above the foliage."
Both of these plants make a great ground cover in the rock garden. The knotweed will, like it's relatives, spread over a large area if allowed but is a more small scaled plant than some others. Down toward the water you can see some native cotton grass growing right in the water's edge.
My first attempt at focus stacking.
Thirteen stacked shots merged in Affinity Photo.
The next picture "Rock crop" shows the size and the area taken (About 12mm across).
The focusing was done by hand moving a table top tripod in and out and using the remote via computer to focus on an area. Next time I'll get my focus rail.
Raynox 250 and ringflash were used.
Siwash rock in the Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Stanley Park is an urban park near downtown Vancouver. It is the largest urban park in Canada.
Click here to see where this photo was taken. By courtesy of BeeLoop SL (the Mapware & Mobility Solutions Company).
La isla de Skye es uno de los lugares de la tierra a los que quiero regresar, me encantaba la atmosfera que transmitian aquellos parajes inóspitos... muchos parecían que no habían sido pisados por el hombre. Es famoso en la isla el Kilt Rock que no es otra cosa que un río desembocando en el mar pero formado una cascada.
Morro Rock, shot from Coast Guard Station.
Flowers:
Scientific Name Kniphofia spp
Common Name Red Hot Poker, Torch Lily
This impressive rock wall was built to keep cows and goats from wandering into the adjacent valley. The care (and work) involved in constructing this 'fence' was impressive, and clearly speaks to the aesthetic of marrying form and function. Looking toward Cime Campestrin (I think), taken from above Rifugio Lavarella. The road in distance is the trail we would take to climb over the pass Forcella da Lago to our next stop at Laguzuoi.
Best on black (click on image)
Rock City Barn, "65 Miles to Rock City", State Highway 127, north of Pikeville, Tennessee
"Rock City" in Chattanooga uses the barns since 1935 for advertisement. Out of about 900 in the eastern US only 100 remain.
Taken while I was doing the shoot for Mooks. One of my mates. This was one of many jumps he performed. Later he decided he'd start a school on how to do jumps as part of a rock show, and other musician skills in how to look cool, and how to pick up ladies at the bar.
Clearly a very serious photo :) HA!
Strobist:
Clamshell lighting 2 shoot through umbrellas
Nikon D40x
Tamron 28-75 f2.8
Poverty Wizzards
I'm going through my collections at the moment including Harry's and my rock collections. Harry had an old school case full of rocks he collected in Central Australia during a school excursion many years ago and I have collected some interesting rocks over the years too. I have culled the excess ones and here are some of what is left. The smaller ones are in an old antique box I own.
I know what some are but many I don't. If anyone knows, I am happy for them to make notes.