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Show us your best rocks

Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Winston Mitchell said:
Can I bend the idea a little bit?
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©2010 Winston Mitchell: Payette River

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This is perfect, my dear Winston! But why is the water so green?

Asher
 
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Joachim Bolte

New member
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Copyright J. Bolte - Preparing for ascent​

Not so much about the rocks themselves, but what you can do with them... This is a picture taken in Fontainebleau, France. One of the nicest 'bouldering' area's in the world.
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Joachim Bolte said:
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Copyright J. Bolte - Preparing for ascent​

Not so much about the rocks themselves, but what you can do with them... This is a picture taken in Fontainebleau, France. One of the nicest 'bouldering' area's in the world.
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Joey,

The Rock in the back looks alive, like a giant lizard creature coming from the right.''

I really like the picture!

Asher
 
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Sandrine Bascouert

Member
Here are mine (4 of them) It's really hard to "compete" now :)

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Winchester not really rocks but stone made by humans...

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Low tide at Seven Sisters, the place at the end of "Quadrophenia".

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A built pond somewhere in Toulouse France

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A close up from a mere rock in Albi, south western France.
 
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scott kirkpatrick

Member
rocks, eh?

A wonderful theme. I live in a desert country, my family comes from Scotland, which is mostly rock. Let's see what I can find:

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This one jumped out at me from Pbase's random selection. It was down near the Dead Sea. There's a wide range of water sources coming into the soup at the bottom,

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but to really see wate and rocks working together, you have to go to Scotland:

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Killin, 2004, taken with a camera that was stolen and whose colors I sometimes miss...

scott
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Sandrine Bascouert said:
Here are mine (4 of them) It's really hard to "compete" now :)
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Sandrine,

Let me comment on the middle two first!


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Sandrine Bascouert: Low tide at Seven Sisters, the place at the end of "Quadrophenia"​


So dynamic, seeming to have live fingers and beautiful dead bones in a dance!



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Sandrine Bascouert: A built pond somewhere in Toulouse France​


This has a delicate but complex sensibility returning from smudged reality in the upper right to clarity in the lower left, giving a surprisingly relaxing experience.

Asher
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
scott kirkpatrick said:
.............
but to really see wate and rocks working together, you have to go to Scotland:
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Scott Kirkpatrick: Killin, 2004

Taken with a camera that was stolen
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Scott,

This picture is exceptional for it's nesting, in the b.g. of a house likely made from the very same rock. I doubt this can be readily surpassed!

Asher
 
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scott kirkpatrick

Member
More rocks 'n water

Here's a rock formation that takes a volcanic past to develop:

Hexagons, forming a curtain above a nice deep cold pool:

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It's in the Golan Heights, and offers really deep water to jump or dive into:

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I have one more, but have connectivity problems... maybe later

scott
 
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scott kirkpatrick

Member
last one in the hexagon pool series -- the source

taken just above the pool in the preceding picture

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The pool is just below the ancient site of Gamla, a less-known zealots' redoubt that outlasted Masada by a few years. Now its name belongs to some good cabernets, grown in fields surrounded by signs warning of unexploded mines.

scott
 
fahim mohammed

fahim mohammed

Well-known member
Maybe not the best; but definitely one of the most treacherous and magnificent...the northern side of the Eiger ( 3900 mts) seen from across the right.

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We shall meet it head-on sometime later; and maybe look down at the valley below...
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
fahim mohammed said:
Maybe not the best; but definitely one of the most treacherous and magnificent...the northern side of the Eiger ( 3900 mts) seen from across the right.

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We shall meet it head-on sometime later; and maybe look down at the valley below...
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Fahim,


Hope you are not risking life and limb for us! This is epic landscape, when you see this I expect another few commandments at least! No one can argue with these rocks!

Asher
 
fahim mohammed

fahim mohammed

Well-known member
Andy, thank you for your gracious comments. It was there, I just clicked. Honestly, nothing more to it.

Asher, limb maybe but more aghast at the wonder that lay before me.

Thank you folks for stopping by.
 
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Andy brown

Well-known member
fahim mohammed said:
. It was there, I just clicked. Honestly, nothing more to it.
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So it's what I'd call an instinctive composition. Trust your eye and shoot. A bit like walking up and hitting a golf ball, sometimes labouring over what you might or might not do just gets in the way.
 
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Andy brown

Well-known member
I love the fact that there's a certain mount Rushmore ghosting going on, I've got about 4 distinctive icy heads going on. All of whom have a certain world weariness in their expressions. Very reverential.
 
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