01-28-09 – Rocks

Cool. Thanks for your opinion. I was kind of torn on whether the ocean seemed to be the focus of the pic.

millera9: The difficulty doesn’t say anything about people, so I’d think it’s kosher. Though hopefully they wouldn’t be the main subject/focus.

The person is the focus, but the rocks are integral. See for yourself (I will probably use a slightly different crop). I know it’s kinda borderline…
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Not my call, but I think that’d be okay. Because like you said, the rocks are integral. I have a similar but different concept that I’m considering, where one of my buddy’s is holding a very large (lava) rock over his head.

I have decided against my bright orange “rocks being born” picture though….

Lots of “B-sides” on this one……. Had to dig through the archives for my “shot number 3” and wound up with a bunch of “ooh, I like this, too…..”

Inspiration if anyone still needs it:

Both types of Hawaiian lava overlapping each other
http://www.buckscorner.com/farktography/rock/aapahoehoe.jpg
http://www.buckscorner.com/farktography/rock/aapahoehoe2.jpg

Chinaman’s hat. Liked the atmosphere, figured it would be too hard to explain that it’s one giant rock. Plus the breakwater is a bit distracting.
http://www.buckscorner.com/farktography/rock/chinahat.jpg

http://www.buckscorner.com/farktography/rock/cleaveface.jpg

Two of my homeboys interacting with rocks
http://www.buckscorner.com/farktography/rock/grubbsmash.jpg
http://www.buckscorner.com/farktography/rock/mike.jpg

Mahana (green sand) olivine beach
http://www.buckscorner.com/farktography/rock/mahana.jpg

Figured there’d be a lot like this one
http://www.buckscorner.com/farktography/rock/rockbeach.jpg

Loved this one, figured attention was drawn too much to the wave, not enough to the rock for the theme, though.
http://www.buckscorner.com/farktography/rock/southpoint.jpg

Anyhow, it’s off to bed until posting time. Yea, nighshift!

I really thought I’d end up going macro this week. I’ve got a fist-sized clump of halite (salt) crystals, some garnets in granite, petrified wood, mollusk fossils, etc. Kind of ran out of time and can’t exactly set up a macro shoot in my office during the work day.

After looking at everyone’s B sides, my entries are pathetic!. Oh well, it’s what I’ve got and I’ll post them. I’m slowly building a photo library, but you guys and gals are waaaaaaaaaay ahead of me.

I really thought I’d end up going macro this week. I’ve got a fist-sized clump of halite (salt) crystals, some garnets in granite, petrified wood, mollusk fossils, etc. Kind of ran out of time and can’t exactly set up a macro shoot in my office during the work day.

I pretty much had you pegged on mountain grandeur. That’s what I would do if I had all of Alaska at my disposal. That, and buy a whole lot of thermal underwear. I guess its not much surprise that not only were all of my B-sides archived Hawaii shots, but all but one of them were from the big island, too.

I took a bunch of shots of that big hunk of whatever it is and now I can’t decide what to use!

I still think it looks like some form of industrial adhesive that managed to crystalize as it hardened. Almost like it should be ever so slightly rubbery to the touch. Or smoky (brown) quartz, which is not only possible, but also likely in RI.

Yea.It’s quartz. I googled it!

Elsinore, it’s almost scary how similar our entries could have been. I had actually ordered a flourite octohedron off of ebay that didn’t get here yet. Although, I was going to UV expose it like the ruby. Fluorite makes a nice blue-green that’s really bright under shortwave UV.

/Edited because I failed to spell “our” correctly.