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Another from our little shoot at Roche Rock. It's a lucky shot really as I only caught it when I looked back as we were making ready to leave and a rare shaft of sunshine struck the rock and chapel as I did so. Camera quickly up and a half dozen hand-held zapped off before the sun went.
The two-room Roche Rock Chapel, which is dedicated to St Michael, was licensed for worship in 1409. It sits atop a granite tor south east of the village of Roche, between St Austell and Bodmin in Cornwall, UK, and has been in ruins for at least 250 years. Roche Rock Chapel consisted of two rooms, one on top of the other, the lower room was used as living quarters by the priest, said to be a hermit who relied on penitents or family members to sustain him with gifts of food and drink. The upper chamber was used for worship.
Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland.
This 12th century fortress was the traditional seat of the kings of Munster for several hundred years. A tour of the rock is a must do on any trip to Ireland, as there is so much history here and so many photo opportunities. After touring the rock, be sure to take a walk down to Hore Abbey, just down the hill and across Camus road. The ruins there are also stunning and offer many views back up to the rock.
This the first of a series of 3 black and white photographs of a sandstone rock that can be found within Wakehurst gardens. The shape of the stone somehow reminded me of an elephant and I thought a monochrome treatment was ideal for the subject. This is also my personal favourite of the 3 images, although I also like the fact that the 3 are subtly different.
The 3 images are:
I was over at a local park on the bay, looking for birds. Well that didn't work out, but in the early morning calm waters this rock caught my attention.
Thanks for looking, etc.:)
A shot I have always wanted, and achieved with a great leader and a great group of guys along side me, WAMX 4170 leads L351 over the Rock River bridge as they depart Janesville with a nice wave from the engineer.
Janesville, WI
2021.03.12
Union Pacific's LDG51B local, known as the Potash Local, rolls down the Cane Creek Branch through Bootlegger Canyon with empties for Intrepid Potash. The pair of SD40-2's brought in 10 empties and picked up 8 loads for the return trip to Grand Junction.
A Rock Wren sings energetically at Red Rock Coulee Natural Area, which protects an intriguing landscape of large concretions spread over an area of prairie. The location is south of the village of Seven Persons which itself is southwest of the city of Medicine Hat in southeastern Alberta, Canada.
Dumbarton Rock, an old volcanic plug with a medieval castle on top, at the junction of the rivers Leven and Clyde.
Goskar Rock is a striking rock formation that juts out of the middle of the sand on Tenby's north beach in Pembrokeshire, South Wales.
This photograph was taken as the low winter sun illuminated the rock providing a nice contrast with the dark sky over the sea.
We'll leave the Cataract Gorge behind with this shot of some rock climbers. The Dolerite rock from the Jurassic era is a great face to climb. There are plenty of cracks to place pitons in and the rock is also very hard. This group of climbers from a local climbing club were enjoying a late afternoon on one of the rock faces. I should say though that about another 20 metres below the rocks in this photograph is the South Esk River.
[You definitely need to enlarge this one.]
The trio of uniquely painted Wisconsin SD40-2's rip across the Rock River in Edgerton.
Edgerton, WI
2021.09.26
Mother nature took a palette of colors and sculpting tools to create the magnificent Cathedral Rock in Death Valley. The Gower Trail leads you through valleys carved out by water under the base of this beautiful sight.
Another one of the rock formations at Widemouth Bay.
I know very little about geology but have read online that these are Silesian, mostly from the Bude Formation and date back to the Carboniferous period, more than 300 million years old. They were formed in a giant tropical lake (Bude Lake) that folded when Britain and France collided.