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Re: Remarkable Rocks
« Reply #300 on: October 17, 2012, 03:32:55 am »

Time for a bump… Camel Rocks, southern NSW coastline.



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Re: Remarkable Rocks
« Reply #301 on: October 18, 2012, 01:55:23 am »

Nicely done! Particularly like the lion on the right.

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Re: Remarkable Rocks
« Reply #302 on: October 23, 2012, 09:38:03 am »

That's amazing! It looks like an angry python.
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Re: Remarkable Rocks
« Reply #303 on: November 01, 2012, 02:43:32 am »

One from Mystery Bay…



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Re: Remarkable Rocks
« Reply #304 on: November 02, 2012, 12:34:53 am »

Here's one from Bathsheba, Barbados.

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Re: Remarkable Rocks
« Reply #305 on: November 02, 2012, 03:23:23 am »

Cliché, but what ya gonna do? ;D


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Re: Remarkable Rocks
« Reply #306 on: November 02, 2012, 06:51:36 pm »

A triangulation point, used by the Ordnance Survey for mapping. They stopped using them several years ago (using GPS mapping now), and many were removed, but a campaign to keep some as a reminder of times past, means that there's still a few dotted around the landscape. This is one of the remaining 'trig points', and they seem to draw walkers (seeking the high points), such that any visiting space alien might conclude that they held some religious significance for people.

Not exactly a rock, but a stony concretion nonetheless, so a bit of poetic licence with this one.

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Re: Remarkable Rocks
« Reply #307 on: November 03, 2012, 12:13:44 pm »

Nice one Bill,
I’ve always liked trig points as they guarantee a good view.
I did Ten Tors as a kid and have a huge respect for the quality of the OS maps that trig points allowed. With a map and compass on Dartmoor it’s nice not having to worry about fog.

You might know anyway but there is a good website about trig points,
http://www.trigpointinguk.com/

Nicholas Crane in his series “The map Man” did a good article as well,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/731568/Britain-Master-of-all-he-surveys.html
Quote;
“The pillar on top of Cadair Idris in Wales took 12 days to construct, and required a team of packhorses rented from a Dolgelly coal merchant to carry the 42 cwt of chippings, sand and cement to the 3,000ft summit of the mountain. In his report, the builder complained of "terrible" mists and heavy rain. “

Puts carrying a DSLR and tripod in perspective. ;-)
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Re: Remarkable Rocks
« Reply #308 on: January 20, 2013, 02:04:12 pm »

Definitely in need of a bump but getting closer to 80 000. Another from Bombo Headland.



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Re: Remarkable Rocks
« Reply #309 on: January 20, 2013, 02:14:12 pm »

A couple from the beach at Kilve, just down the road from me ...

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Re: Remarkable Rocks
« Reply #310 on: January 20, 2013, 03:30:07 pm »

Three rocky landscapes of Valtelline Valley: 1) Pizzo del Teo; 2) Cime di lago Spalmo and Corno di Dosdè (this one far on the left) (panorama); 3) Corni Bruciati.
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Re: Remarkable Rocks
« Reply #311 on: January 20, 2013, 03:33:44 pm »

And we have broken the 80 000 mark. Now to regain the lead over those tree people.

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Re: Remarkable Rocks
« Reply #312 on: January 21, 2013, 02:34:07 am »

Definitely in need of a bump but getting closer to 80 000. Another from Bombo Headland.

Really like this, Tom - shows the power of water to move stone in a very direct way!

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Re: Remarkable Rocks
« Reply #313 on: February 05, 2013, 09:44:22 pm »

Bombo is great and Remarkable Rocks are too.



Happy bump day.

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Re: Remarkable Rocks
« Reply #314 on: February 05, 2013, 11:34:11 pm »

Very fine bumping, everybody!
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Re: Remarkable Rocks
« Reply #315 on: February 06, 2013, 12:37:00 am »

A couple from the beach at Kilve, just down the road from me ...


Just down the road!? Why aren't we seeing more of your exploring here...I hear Wynn Bullock calling to you, "Mysteries all around, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived"

Both of your posts invite me to find this place, to want to know this place... (It would take more than Neptune's call to drag me away,) From the "visual notes" you have made you could fill long passages of time in this place. What a landscape!, with what looks to be an amazing geological story to tell. Selfishly as the viewer I want to see you drown out my thinking, my looking, with your seeing. I wish for you the gift of long time in this wonderful location by dark and all manner of wonderful light.
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Re: Remarkable Rocks
« Reply #316 on: February 06, 2013, 09:09:33 am »

Rock pile in the Davis Mountains of West Texas from a distance. Click image for a larger version..





And an old news paper at Three Rivers Petroglyph site in New Mexico..  Still a rock I think.







And some fossils up close. I guess these would still be considered a "rock" even if it isn't a landscape. (-:}



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Re: Remarkable Rocks
« Reply #317 on: February 06, 2013, 09:20:47 am »

How about a rockin panorama? Eagleford Formation near Langtry Texas.




If you want to see a larger version and more detail sized 5120x1600 for background on my dual monitors check here.
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Re: Remarkable Rocks
« Reply #318 on: February 22, 2013, 12:04:18 am »

Rocks near Cootamundra, unfortunately on private property.



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Re: Remarkable Rocks
« Reply #319 on: February 22, 2013, 01:16:51 am »

Some great rocks here folks... thanks for sharing!!

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