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WC # 583
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WC # 583

by SandyRichardsBrown

Gallery: Weekly ChallengePosted May 9, 2013244 views5 comments
D800
70-180mm macro @ 140mm
1.3 sec, f/22
Mode: Av
Metering: Multi-segment
ISO: 200
AF mode: MANUAL
White balance: AUTO
Flash: Off

Comments

5 comments
Comment posted by Patricia Brundage on May 9, 2013 at 5:18 PM
Like the colors, lines and textures of you rock posts. This one looks a little soft in the smaller version.
Registered on March 23, 2006, 1111 Posts, 6531 Comments
Comment posted by Carolyn Derstine on May 9, 2013 at 8:44 PM
What beauty resides in these rocks! This cross section helps us view and appreciate this beauty and the forces of nature that helped form these rocks. I like the variety of neutral colors and textures throughout. Nice comp of the design elements.
Registered on February 16, 2011, 610 Posts, 3684 Comments
Comment posted by John Clulow on May 10, 2013 at 7:29 PM
The curvilinear patterns are nicely contrasted with the more granular "background", and I also like the color contrast with the red-orange and the subtle blue-greens. Especially nice in the larger view.

This appears to be a slice across an edge of a banded agate, perhaps, and the patterns are suggestive of the formative processes. The central nuclei are now empty cavities were there was once substance that the quartz-like rock eventually developed around resulting, ultimately, in the beautiful shapes and colors, sort of a monument to what was once there.



Registered on November 1, 2012, 155 Posts, 1079 Comments
Comment posted by Ian Wolfenden on May 12, 2013 at 2:17 PM
A lovely cross section, Sandy( if perhaps a touch soft ? ). The contours seem to suggest the forces which must have shaped the rock out of so many materials.
Registered on May 18, 2007, 1108 Posts, 7647 Comments
Comment posted by Jim Lockhart on May 13, 2013 at 5:58 PM
A beautiful example of nature's art, Sandy. I can't really see the softness, as mentioned earlier, but then again I'm new at this anyway :). Remarkable how the outside shape is repeated somewhat on the inside. At first glance brought me back to high school biology, looking at amoebas :)!
Registered on February 19, 2013, 91 Posts, 500 Comments