Photo Comp October 2014 - 'Stone'

[RiK]

Apologies for the delay folks.. Gribbles won last month and he is new to the forum so apparently didn't know how these things work.. Oh, wait..

Anyway, our topic for October is 'Stone'

Winning took me by surprise a bit there - sorry to thank you for that by a the delay in getting this post up.

Tough business this thinking up a subject isn't it - so in the grand tradition of choosing something I can see from where I'm typing, let's go for stone

Weathered, polished, carved, built with, out of place, in the perfect place, patterns in stone, textures - even something that exudes a stoney nature. Hopefully, this gives a bit of scope to play with

Rules are here

Graham

Shortlist of 3:

PFVA - Round
I like this because it looks like a little world in it's own right. The seaweed at the top look like hills, and the limpets like another continent. And I guess to the things living on it, that lump of rock is their world...

Dvorak - Against The Sea, Against Our Bane [Norderney Groyne Stone]
I must confess to enjoying all of Dvoraks photos. Always full of atmosphere, and this one doesn't disappoint. I like this because even with the light in the top left, it's not obvious what the orientation of this is.

Goatfoam - Not one stone...
There's something about this. The photo itself draws you in to the ruin - but when you look wider the landscape seems to focus in on it as well. If it was in a game, you'd be activating it somehow - can just picture a glowing beam shooting out of the top

[Dvorak]

Oi, c'mon Gribbles. We ain't here just for the fun of it.

[Dvorak]

Always the same with us old people here in this old place.
I mean, if we'd just admit that we're taking far to long for just simple decisions, simple moves, simple turns, then we'd just could admit that this here 21st century and all has just overun us, and we're just looking for this safe place, this place that was once here, our place, a place called home. Whatever we might have called it in our times, back then, when we were so much faster (as I seem to remember, but maybe I remember it totally wrong).

What was the question again?

Ah yes.

Oi, Gribbles, give us a theme!

[gribbles]

Winning took me by surprise a bit there - sorry to thank you for that by a the delay in getting this post up.

Tough business this thinking up a subject isn't it - so in the grand tradition of choosing something I can see from where I'm typing, let's go for stone

Weathered, polished, carved, built with, out of place, in the perfect place, patterns in stone, textures - even something that exudes a stoney nature. Hopefully, this gives a bit of scope to play with

Rules are here

Graham

[PFVA]

Round

A stone that sits most of the time underwater only surfacing during very low tides

[RiK]

Something from the archive to show willing..


Stone Circle? by Richard Olpin LRPS, on Flickr

[F-ZeroOne]

At the site of the Imperial Palace park, Tokyo. This was part of the lower wall of a former castle that once stood there (this and the following photo are both also from the memory banks).

ne[/url], on Flickr

[F-ZeroOne]

Thinking outside the box...?

[PFVA]

Taken Sunday morning

[Dvorak]

Against The Sea, Against Our Bane [Norderney Groyne Stone]

Taken yesterday night at Norderney, one of these little East Frisian islands, just a few metres from the Milchbar.

[RiK]

Nice! Man I love the stuff Dvorak posts, really creative mate, keep 'em coming!

[Xstreme]

Its been a while since I posted on here but I've got my life back. Even found time for a sneaky personal photoshoot recently. Thought this example from that shoot could be suitable for this months subject.

Photo-geek stuff:
Shot on a 5D and first time using a new lens. I just picked up a little Sigma 35mm prime art lens. Not shot a huge amount with it as yet but so far it seems pretty good. Going travelling next month and want to travel pretty light with just the 35 & 50mm lenses so it should get a proper work out soon.

[RiK]

I just picked up a little Sigma 35mm prime art lens.

Ooh you cuuuuuunt. I've had that little bugger on the wish list for a while. Rumour has it they're going to do an 85mm 1.4 Art too, and very interestingly a 24-70 f/2.0 as well.

[PFVA]

Not sure if this qualifies as "stone" or if it should be rock. In our language here we use the word for "stone" when refferring to this area.

A very low tide

[GoatFoam]

Looks like a stone to me.

I just got a new camera, so I am looking around for stones to photograph. Or will be if it ever stops raining.