My pebble stack photo
Aug 19, 2012 18:12:50 #
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Aug 19, 2012 20:53:03 #
question...did you use the 50mm prime for this photo?
I love the colors...composition....really wonderful
I love the colors...composition....really wonderful
Aug 19, 2012 21:20:51 #
I live on a creek and the shallows can be very rocky. A friend and I started building these on the edges of islands of rock, making them as tall as we could stack them. Children came past on inner tubes and asked about them. I made up a fairy tale story about Indians finding each other when they are lost and marking their trails, which is what small piles like this on a trail can signify.....but later I saw where the children had started trying their hand at making river sculptures and the passtime caught on with lots of folks up and down the creek. Now, during the summer, I will see many of these stacks somewhere and know that someone's having fun. Yours is made with some very nice stones and makes a very soothing photograph.
Aug 20, 2012 11:16:52 #
twitcher32
Loc: North Carolina/Costa Rica
My neighbor does the same thing with stones he takes out of the creek that runs down from the Blue Ridge Parkway - kinds neat, huh
Aug 20, 2012 11:57:54 #
Thankyou all for your comments.
I used my kit lens 18-55mm as it was on at the time.
I spent a little while selecting the pebbles based on colour, size and texture then placed them on the orange rock. The background had a bit more colour to it so I converted it to b&w to make the pebbles more prominent.
I think I will frame this one and hang it above my bath as it feels very peaceful.
betsout06 wrote:
question...did you use the 50mm prime for this photo?
I love the colors...composition....really wonderful
I love the colors...composition....really wonderful
I used my kit lens 18-55mm as it was on at the time.
I spent a little while selecting the pebbles based on colour, size and texture then placed them on the orange rock. The background had a bit more colour to it so I converted it to b&w to make the pebbles more prominent.
I think I will frame this one and hang it above my bath as it feels very peaceful.
Aug 20, 2012 12:51:30 #
In Boy Scouts we learn that one stone on top of another means this is the trail. The same thing with a stone to the right is to turn right, on the left is turn left and 3 stones on top of another is a warning or danger. Just a little food for thought. As my mother use to say, now you have learned something you can go to bed. ;)
Aug 20, 2012 15:10:28 #
twitcher32
Loc: North Carolina/Costa Rica
In Liberia, West Africa, where I lived and worked for 18 years, when trekking in the bush, we always picked a rock up at the bottom of any long hill and deposited in at the top. This was to assure that we would travel safely and return home.
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Aug 20, 2012 23:10:15 #
twitcher32 wrote:
My neighbor does the same thing with stones he takes out of the creek that runs down from the Blue Ridge Parkway - kinds neat, huh
Sounds like my creek, fer shure!!! :)
Aug 20, 2012 23:12:54 #
I like it . It has simple all over it , love that . Nicely done ( to me anyway )
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