rockshapes

I have gathered a small gallery of images together, looking at the interesting rock formations at the beach.

They have been weathered and eroded so variably by millions of years of nature’s geological and tidal processes — some all straight edges and angles, many more sculpted, smoothed and curvy — and are mostly all irregularly marked with contrasting quartz lines. Although obviously visible when taken, the rock does appear and disappear regularly — and apparently varies in relative height — as each tide brings greater or lesser amounts of sand and shingle in with it.

They are all square format pictures. I just like how a square feels like your attention is deliberately directed and is all neatly contained in this small section of the larger scene.

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Square format black and white photograph looking downwards at layered and weathered rock at a beach, with multiple levels like steps along a roughly diagonal slant and sand grains gathered in the depressions.

Square format black and white photograph looking downwards at layered and weathered rock at a beach. The dark bedrock is smoothed and smaller pebbles occupy a depression in the bottom right, contrasting in shape and tone.

Square format black and white photograph looking downwards at layered and weathered rock at a beach. The rock layers look like they are slightly overlapping, reminiscent of an animal's scales, and mirrored rockpools in the depressions reflect the skies above.

Square format black and white photograph looking downwards at layered and weathered rock at a beach. The rock's layers and folds are smoothed out by tidal action and highlighted by the shadows of oblique lighting.

Square format black and white photograph looking downwards at layered and angular weathered rock at a beach, with multiple levels like steps and white lines of quartz traversing across the layers.

Square format black and white photograph looking downwards at dark, weathered and tide-worn rock at a beach, with multiple white straight lines of quartz in the rock appearing like a fan, radiating from the bottom right, and a limpet seemingly hiding at the top left. The rock has many contour like lines as layers of it have been gradually eroded.

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mroseberry6 says:

February 25, 2023 at 3:17 pm

I always love your rock photos.

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1. Bear Humphreys says:
  
  February 25, 2023 at 4:54 pm
  
  Thank you, Mike. Another subject, along with trees, that stays still long enough for me to photograph them. 😉
  
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mydangblog says:

February 26, 2023 at 2:52 pm

Oh, how I envy you being so close to such a beautiful beach:-)

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1. Bear Humphreys says:
  
  February 27, 2023 at 7:50 am
  
  This time of year it’s pretty much ours (locals) to wander about on. After Easter, the rest of the country comes to play on it, so I tend to keep to the clifftops then!
  
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