Weekly Photo Contest: 15 May - 22 May 2018 - Art in Nature

[Darmok N Jalad]

Congrats to podium members!

 

[deep diver]

Thank you for the podium. Great entries, as always. Congrats to Alex and mollyc. Looking forward to the next one, and counting on it being tough.

 

[Alexander.Of.Oz]

Thanks Chris @stillcrazyman for the gong! Congrat's to all that entered, I thought there were some great interpretations on the theme. I felt my entry may have been a tad too literal in it's interpretation, but is actually one of my favourite pieces of art at a botanical gardens in the hills, famous for its Autumn colours.

I'll go grab a coffee and put on my thinking cap for the next rounds theme.

 

[0970373]

Love these little stone piles on Lindisfarne but there are so many to choose from.

L1004163 by Ken OHagan, on Flickr

Well now I can post this. This is from a trip I took up to Skye but I think it was someplace before we crossed the bridge. I love the stones people leave in remembrance of loved ones. I tell my friends that when I kick the bucket, I require them to carry a stone for me and leave it here so I have someplace beautiful to look at for eternity**.



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** or until someone kicks my rocks over

 

[kenoh]

Thats a beautiful picture and a great idea.

Well now I can post this. This is from a trip I took up to Skye but I think it was someplace before we crossed the bridge. I love the stones people leave in remembrance of loved ones. I tell my friends that when I kick the bucket, I require them to carry a stone for me and leave it here so I have someplace beautiful to look at for eternity**.



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[Mark0]

Unfortunately, I’m of the other opinion. I cannot stand those little cairns people build. I understand they may hold some importance to individuals but I’m not a fan and think they spoil the wilderness and scenic areas. They are also growing in popularity in Skye from what I hear

 

[Alexander.Of.Oz]

Unfortunately, I’m of the other opinion. I cannot stand those little cairns people build. I understand they may hold some importance to individuals but I’m not a fan and think they spoil the wilderness and scenic areas. They are also growing in popularity in Skye from what I hear

We had a "world famous cairn builder" come to a local beach holding half day workshops for a few hundred quid per person. He couldn't keep up with the demand from bored housewives!

Sometimes at the beach I build one for the Mindful Photography groups, but always out of the way, so it's unseen and hidden, not distracting from the landscape. I have good fine reflexes and spacial awareness, etc, so can get them quite high whilst using smaller rocks.

I always thought that a cairn was traditionally used as a marker for journeying across land, and that a rock pile was a marker for a persons burial site.