MSA March/April 2015 - "Stone"

[TheToadMen]

Hi Ned,
Good images! I can see you're having fun.

 

[MattKing]

Boy, is my job going to be tough at the end of the month!

 

[Bill Burk]

MattKing,

I do not seek, nor will I accept... anything but honorable mention.

There are too many genuine photographs to choose from.

 

[NedL]

Here's a neat place I went yesterday. The image shows a portion of shiny polished stone that may have been made because these were rubbing rocks for mammoths. The rocks are on a broad uplifted flat that was cut by the sea 125,000 years ago called the Pleistocene platform, a common feature along the coast in Northern California. At one time, these rocks and the one in the distance would have been sea stacks. Later, this plain may have been home to the Columbian mammoth ( Oh!.. this is cool: I didn't know until just now as I'm typing this that there is a picture of these same rocks on that wikipedia page. You can see where I was hiking and probably even figure out where I put my camera! ) It was windy and wild there yesterday with clouds flying, and had a prehistoric "lost in time" feel to it. I've hiked here before but never knew about the rub-polished stone until this MSA.

12 minute exposure on an 8x10 pinhole paper negative. So this MSA is all pinhole for me, nothing came to mind for a "normal" photograph!

 

[TheToadMen]

Here's a neat place I went yesterday. The image shows a portion of shiny polished stone that may have been made because these were rubbing rocks for mammoths.

12 minute exposure on an 8x10 pinhole paper negative. So this MSA is all pinhole for me, nothing came to mind for a "normal" photograph!

This is one beautiful image. And capturing 125.000 years in 12 minutes ... even Einstein didn't figure that one out.

Bert from Holland
http://thetoadmen.blogspot.nl

 

[NedL]

Thanks Bert! Something about pinhole and time.... fits together somehow...

 

[peter k.]

*HELLO*
hahahhha..
anybody alive?
:alien:

 

[TheToadMen]

Another shot made on my test run with the Mamiya C330f, 80 mm on Fomapan 100 in DD-X.

It's a beautiful modern stone, square building in Sittard, The Netherlands (mid May 2015).

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

 

[TheToadMen]

This is a beauty! Just guessing: Portra film?

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

Yes, Portra 160, from my Rolleiflex 2.8E, hand-held.

 

[TheToadMen]

Yes, Portra 160, from my Rolleiflex 2.8E, hand-held.

Job well done!

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

Tree, Stone Wall. Tele-Rolleiflex Sonnar 135 f4. Tri-X, Pyrocat HD.

This is the end wall of the World Health Organization building in Washington DC, the modernist building I've been photographing.

 

[I.G.I.]

Stone glass and metal engaged in a dialogue.

(Portra 400 commercially processed; Pentax and Konica Minolta gear)

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

Stone glass and metal engaged in a dialogue.

(Portra 400 commercially processed; Pentax and Konica Minolta gear)

I know where that is! I was there in 2013, but took a slightly different photo:

and

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

More stone.

 

[I.G.I.]

@(there was a url link here which no longer exists) Well, the Louvre pyramid is one of the worst visual secrets...

Amusingly I also shot the spiral staircase though the shot is very different in execution and mood (one of my fixations is to convey the flow and chaotic energy in busy public places); perhaps on another occasion I would post the image since it doesn't fit with the thread theme.

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

@(there was a url link here which no longer exists) Well, the Louvre pyramid is one of the worst visual secrets...

Amusingly I also shot the spiral staircase though the shot is very different in execution and mood (one of my fixations is to convey the flow and chaotic energy in busy public places); perhaps on another occasion I would post the image since it doesn't fit with the thread theme.

I'm planning on going back to Paris to do some nighttime panoramas of the Louvre courtyard with the pyramids all lit up. There's lots of possibilities there.

 

[I.G.I.]

Oh yes, there are some possibilities there though at times is quite busy with photographers (not to mention tourists who have the strange penchant to stop and make a long pause just in front of your lens ). Btw, if not aware you should bear in mind that the gates to the courtyard close at 11-ish p.m.; considering summer is getting dark quite late there is not much of a time window.

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

Oh yes, there are some possibilities there though at times is quite busy with photographers (not to mention tourists who have the strange penchant to stop and make a long pause just in front of your lens ). Btw, if not aware you should bear in mind that the gates to the courtyard close at 11-ish p.m.; considering summer is getting dark quite late there is not much of a time window.

I probably wouldn't get there until September/October when the daylight is getting shorter again. And it may not be this year either Alas flights from the US are not cheap.

 

[I.G.I.]

Don't worry, the pyramid and a few other stones will be waiting there to pose for you

 

[sly]

Lithos is Greek for stone. Lithed, theocarbamide and selinum toned.

 

[MattKing]

Looks to me like sly is warming to the topic

 

[peter k.]

Ok, how do you load an image up so it is larger than a thumbnail, like Rocks of Laguna #19?
Only loaded one or two images up on Apug, and there so dang small.
Have Color Image size at this time as 3000 x 1988

 

[MattKing]

Ok, how do you load an image up so it is larger than a thumbnail, like Rocks of Laguna #19?
Only loaded one or two images up on Apug, and there so dang small.
Have Color Image size at this time as 3000 x 1988

Load it as a jpeg in this thread - the little paper clip at the top of the advanced reply window is what you need to click on.