Whilst eating my cereal this morning the TV show I was watching was broadcasting from Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Having visited there
recently I though about Remarkable Rocks which truly are photogenic.

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I thought that there must be thousands of places out there that have great rocks. So come on, show us your rocks.

Cheers,

Hi Tom: Here are a few for you:

Mike.


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A - Cougar face - Barron's Canyon, Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario
B - actually clay, not rock - Swift Current Creek valley, southern Saskatchewan
C - there's a profile of a woman's face in the rock - Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia
D - rock outcrop, southern Nebraska
E - Final Bows, Garden of the Gods, Manitou Springs, Colorado
F - Big Nose, Garden of the Gods, Manitou Springs, Colorado
G - Native Headdress, Myra Canyon, Kelowna, BC
H - What's New Pussycat? Gallagher's Canyon, Mission Creek, Kelowna, BC

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Hi Tom: Here are a few for you:

Mike.


Thanks for the reply, I was starting to think that clouds were more popular than rocks.

Here are some of our most popular rocks – The Pinnacles in Western Australia.

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Cheers,

Rocks are greatful subjects.

An Army in Devil's Garden

The Patriarch Spiral

The Ballerina Slipper

A hard core formation

Burr Trail, Navajo Formation

Burr Trail, Wingate Formation (The Swiss Cheese)

Nice rocks. Karlu Karlu (The Devils Marbles) in the Northern Territory is also a great place to see rocks. Aboriginal people believe that these boulders are the eggs of the Dreamtime's Rainbow Serpent.

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Keep on Rocking!

Rocks and clouds, that would be cool.
Here are some rocks I've been wondering what to do with. I think they will end up as B&W prints.
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Cheers, David

Not 4, 9 or 10, surely!

Jeremy

... And not 2 and 5 as well . Remarkable shots!

- Christos

Thank you both very much. I've been struggling with the issue of how to achieve a visual unity with these, before I travel half way round the world again to have another go, and attempt the stones I didn't want to photograph last time. Number 1 isn't part of the series, and number 9 I may leave as is. But I think properly converted and printed they will make more sense as a whole in B&W. Unfortunately I have no idea yet how to really do this. Um, another learning curve coming up this year . David

Vedauwoo in southeast Wyoming has some great rocks - 1.4bn year old Sherman granite sculpted into some remarkable shapes.



It's highly popular with the local climbing community.

(Sorry for full size image - how do you do the thumbnail thing?)

A few from the Derbyshire Peak District, all weathered from the millstone grit of the Dark Peak area.

Eagle Stone, Baslow Edge
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On Carl Wark
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On Froggatt Edge
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Salt Cellar, Derwent Edge
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The Three Ships, Birchen Edge
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David,

are these growing there?

Frankly, I think this thread rocks! 

So here are a few of my weird rocks:

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1. Sierra Nevadas (Sequoia N.P.?), CA   2. Joshua Tree National Park, CA

3. San Diego, CA                                  4. White Sands, NM

5. & 6. Bisti Badlands, NM

7. Near Abiqui, NM                               8. Plaza Blanca, NM

Stones not Rocks?
Marc
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Gabor, I do believe you are right. It must be the soil. Here we seem to only grow these:
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One of mine. I remember thinking something when I took it, but I'm not now sure what it was. Looking at it, I can't quite work out whether it's worth anything or if it's just wasting hard disk space. Comments, anyone?

Jeremy
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Here's one…

Amazing shots in this thread - great rocks. So just for fun here is Spyder Rock....

Here are a few rocks fron New Mexico:

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And one from Norway:
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Ronny

I am sure it is called The Viper Rock.

That would make sense. Certainly looks like a cobra to me.

Thanks to everyone for sharing your work!!

Here's one more...

Mike.

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You might well be right!

Does this cairn count? On the top of the Bealach, Applecross.
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An interesting thread. Considering that they don't move or change their appearance much, I've always found rocks to be a fascinating subject and it seems quite a lot of you do as well. Anyway here are a few more:

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Neil

Here you go:



Cheating slightly here; this is actually an outdoor sculpture called Deirbhle's Twist in Mayo, Ireland. Although they *are* real rocks!

Here is one of mine:



The interesting thing about this shot is what looks like a twig, is actually a tree 30 or 40 feet long.

Bob Towery
http://bobtowery.typepad.com

Quite often it is easier to make small things look large than to make large things look monumental.

Here are a few more shots of Remarkable Rocks.

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Cheers,

Remarkable in a difference sense, perhaps?

Jeremy

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I'm new to using this board, so I hope no one will mind too much if I use this thread as an experiment to see if I can learn how to post a photo into a thread topic.

For me, The Windows Section at Arches NP rocks! (er, excuse the pun.)

Commence experiment:




Could someone reply or send me a PM and tell me how the little black framed reduced size photos are done? I tried looking under the "help" section but didn't see it. Anyone able to point me in the right direction? TIA.

Here's one from me, called "The Rock" in the area (Gibraltar)



One of the few days it didn't have a cloud at the top.

You just have to upload an image to the forum. Use the "Choose File" button and then press the "UPLOAD" button.

Ah, gottcha; so the other option than inserting image by URL like I did in my post. Will make a note of it. Thanks.

a few from one of our travels in the NE of Canada,,

Derry

Here are some rocks from Bombo, two hours south of Sydney.

Bombo is a world class geological site, so what did they do? They built a sewerage works in the middle of it.

If you were a Power Rangers fan you may have seen the quarry as scenes were shot there. The quarry is also popular for still and video ads. One video had a SUV going down from Bombo and then travelling across land and going up the Grand Canyon.

These pics were taken with my first digital camera, the Nikon 990, how things have changed Au$250 for a 64MB card.

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Cheers,

PS Reading the paper this morning I saw that due to the strong Euro, Gibraltar is now being swamped by Spaniards taking advantage of low English pound.

New user just testing the upload method as per previous post, thanks.

More from the Windows Section in Arches.

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Cool, it works.

Great. I guess some feel that the color is overdone, but sometimes I like it that way, and often I too stress the colors:

Btw, this is the Shakespeare Arch in Kodachrome Basin, Utah. The namesake was not the English writer but the rancher of the park, who found the formation.

Not sure if you mean the colors overdone in mine, but both, incl the turret arch shot were shot years ago on velvia slide film, hence the more saturated warm & cool colors.

Cheers.

Here's one of mine from California

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and one from Ontario


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Bill

Wow... a thread where everyone is sharing their work and nobody is yelling! Keep 'em coming!!

(hope I didn't jinx it...)

Here are some smaller rocks from Shuswap Lake. Their colours are more interesting than their shapes, though...

Mike.

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Northern California Coast

The first one is my favourite...

Mike.

Here is some Australian colour.

Winifred Falls NSW, Cape leveque WA, and Mandorah NT (x2)

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I tend to look for colour for my paintings.

Cheers,

Here is a shot from my recent trip in Carmel/ Big Sur. This is a 3 shot stitch with a Phase One P45+ and Cambo RS w/ 35mm.

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Rocks, my favorite subject. This first one is "Snoopy in a Robe." Found in Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario.

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The rest are a few from around North America

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Love the subject, and all the nice photographs. Here are four from Wreck Island, Georgian Bay:

1. A "Still Life" (but I didn't rearrange them, I swear!)
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2. Glacial Percussion Boulder
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4. Love Canal
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Here's another - the Canadian Shield.

Bill

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Very nice, my kind of rock shot! It looks like an abstract cave painting.

This is also on the Canadian shield. A detail from "Danse Macabre" at The Tree Museum, near Gravenhurst.
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fascinating - I don't even know the place!
Bill

guess I should get me rocks online as well....

Here\'s one from the Bolivian altiplano:


here\'s an underappreciated rock near Perito Moreno, Argentina


a salt encrusted rock from the Dead Sea, Jordan:


here\'s the Wadi Dhar Palace built on a rock in Yemen: