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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...
rock climbing and hiking at chandler park hanging around with my sister --I just love the flip flops of the younger sister in the foreground as she sits on an outcropping
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.
A beach rock formation on a nice day at a beach near the Marin Headlands, just west of the Golden Gate Bridge.
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).
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
Chimney Rock is a 535-million-year old rock formation located at the edge of Blue Ridge Mountains. This geological structure came about through a mass of granite that was formed when the Earth’s molten interior welled up, cooled and solidified. Through billions of years of high temperatures and extreme pressure, the granite became a form of Gneiss. Followed by a slow process of erosion by wind, water and extreme temperatures, Chimney Rock was carved out from its surrounding cliffs.
www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC1H7EB_chimney-rock-park-geo...
Went Rock Climbing this afternoon. I was a little to excited and forgot about setting up a shot, so I just snapped this when leaving.
Quadra in Softbox boomed and flagged above and to left of model
Dynalite with grid and ND Gel right and behind for edge light
White Rock Bridge over the Pawcatuck River and the White Rock Canal. The bridge connected Westerly in Washington County, Rhode Island and Stonington, Connecticut. The bridge originally carried both highway and electric railway traffic on separate sides of the bridge using a common center truss. The highway portion of the bridge has been removed and a new adjacent concrete bridge now carries vehicles. The center span of the rail bridge is a 126 ft Pratt through truss.
The bridge was constructed in 1906 by the National Construction Company for the Norwich and Westerly Railway Company. Rail traffic was discontinued in 1922.
Historic American Engineering Record (HAER RI-39 as the White Rock Bridge)
Described as the Orphan Tower in a photo by N.J. Caire 1879, it was named the Orphan Rock in The Mountaineer newspaper 1898. A walking track to the top was opened in1934 but closed in the 1950s due to fear of falling rocks, note the steps and handrail top left. Originally more famous than the Three Sisters and adopted as the logo of the Paragon Cafe in Katoomba in the 1920s with the motto "Stands Alone", it now lies deserted and alone again below the scenic cableway.
Ordnance Survey maps offer no better name for this coastal feature at Auchmithie than 'The Rock'. (I used to think it was called the 'Maiden Stane', but that is actually the reef in the foreground.)
My Mum and uncle, as children spending holidays here in the 1940s, had a much better name: the Queen Victoria Rock.