The Observer

Gallery: LandscapePosted July 28, 2011142 views5 comments

I've been at Monument Rocks, western Kansas, many times and at all hours of the day and night. I have never noticed how this section takes on the appearance of a face, looking over the prairie. The angle of the full moon must have been just right, and I must have been in the right frame of mind after being on the road for 4 days that I finally noticed it. I looked again the next morning, and can see the resemblance, but it is hard to see unless looking for it, IMO. C&C always welcome and appreciated.

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Comment posted by Ben Horne on July 29, 2011 at 1:48 AM

Looks like a Gorn Pez dispenser.

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Comment posted by Jorne de Bruin on July 29, 2011 at 10:00 AM

Superb night sky and intersting rocks in the FG. I might be tempted to crop a bit off the bottom though, to give more preference to the nightsky

Registered on June 26, 2008, 178 Posts, 2136 Comments

Comment posted by Richard Teller on July 29, 2011 at 6:00 PM

The sky is very nice, but for me the rock over powers the sky. There is to much rock and it is to bright. I think I would crop it to a least above the darker part of the rock, so the sky becomes more the center of the image.

Registered on August 23, 2010, 1162 Posts, 6692 Comments

Comment posted by Nancy Lea Sandy on July 29, 2011 at 8:09 PM

I like the crop suggestions. That sky is stellar (pun intended) and deserves to take center stage.

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on July 31, 2011 at 2:01 PM

I see the face and that's one heck of a nose! I like the contrast between the surprisingly well lit rocks and the dark sky with pinpoint stars. What's the geological origin of this formation? I too could see cropping off the bottom 1/3.

Registered on January 23, 2011, 1103 Posts, 17270 Comments