B&W Challenge No. 14 - Stone

This one started as a shot I took this afternoon in the rain of a glacial erratic conglomerate that finished up in a local park. Once I converted to black and white in ON1 - well not quite black as I preferred a hint of brown - I decided a close up would be more interesting than the overall view. So I cropped it - next time I'm in the park I try for a closer shot.

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Tony

It seems most odd putting a © 2018 date stamp on a photo taken today, Sept 11, of something that was formed a few tens of millions or over 400 hundred million years ago.  

This stone displays an imprint of a coiled cephalopod. I collected the stone in July 2014 in the shores of Redfish Lake near Taloyoak, Nunavut Territory, Canada. It is inside the Arctic Circle. [Sidenote: Have to tell you that it is rather a good time fishing at midnight when the sun is still above the horizon. Spring (in July) was very late and the Arctic Ocean frozen wall-to-wall with 2 m of ice even near land, so the Arctic char we went to catch did not show up. However, we still fished for lake trout in places like Redfish Lake. No char, but a fabulous experience! Wonderful people and lots to do.]

This stone is ~110 by ~80 mm. The central part of the shell coil is 30 mm wide. This was photographed in raw under sun with the light coming from the side to accentuate the shell features. I set the stone (that I previously had cut the bottom flat for display) on a small brick on the BBQ and set up so there was shadow behind. In PSE, I cleaned up the background and darkened everything but the stone. Converted to BW via new adjustment layer >> gradient map with foreground and background set as B and W.

Clive

Civil War unfinished rail road bridge

Very nice - I've always liked the chapel at St. Malo.  I have a few renditions of that myself.  I've driven to Estes Park on the Peak to Peak highway many times.  I may try something myself in monochrome.  You too it either before or after I last did, because my photos have a 30 foot tree right near the corner that is nearest the photographer.

Helen - Here is one of my photos of the Chapel at St. Malo.  Note the tree which apparently had removed itself from the composition by the time you took your photo.  Mine was taken in 2011.

Converted and developed in LR6.  





CAMERA Canon EOS REBEL T1i

LENS Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM

ISO 100

FOCAL LENGTH 35.0 mm (55.6 mm in 35mm)

APERTURE f/6.3

EXPOSURE TIME 0.008s (1/125)

Another one at Chaco Canyon, inside of Pueblo Bonito.




CAMERA Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z6

ISO 50

FOCAL LENGTH 10.3 mm (62.0 mm in 35mm)

APERTURE f/5

EXPOSURE TIME 0.0125s (1/80)