Coastal Rock Stone
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Coastal Rock Stone
A great aspect of bonsai, penjiin and suiseki is the fun had conjuring a theme, style and story. Comparing stones collected with other suiseki collectors can be a bit like spotting shapes in passing clouds. When I found this 30cm gnarly lump of chert recently it was laying on its side and my interest was drawn mainly to the number of seams and cracks. When rolled onto the flat end its potential as a coastal rock suiseki became apparent. The rich colours and strongly contrasting shapes look like a contemporary oil painting to me.
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Re: Coastal Rock Stone
I know you love your rocks. But please tell me you are going to plant something on this one. It's a beaut!!! What great colouring I wont thank you for sharing. I want this rock!
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Kirky
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Kirky
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Re: Coastal Rock Stone
Thanks for your enthusiastic comment watty. I can see you like rocks too! It's too cool for figs on the tablelands so I don't have any. Maybe a little shimpaku....? We got some nice material on this last trip which still need to be cleaned and photographed so stay tuned. I'm going to set up a photo database so I can keep track of where each one is found etc.
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Re: Coastal Rock Stone
Sorry Kirky. Got you mixed up with watty!
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No probs. You wouldn't mix us up if you met us how many rocks in your collection? I was thinking Shimpaku or Hinoki
Great minds.
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Kirky
Great minds.
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Re: Coastal Rock Stone
......,mmmmm...... Iots! Probably have 600 stones suitable for bonsai and another 150 or so suiseki candidates.
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Re: Coastal Rock Stone
And yes, I am here, and YES, love the stone, but for me its a viewing stone not a ROR stone. Just me.
And Yes, with a similar rock collection.
enjoying your posts FF, keep 'em comin'
Watty
And Yes, with a similar rock collection.
enjoying your posts FF, keep 'em comin'
Watty
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Re: Coastal Rock Stone
Hi F/F
Absolutely love the rock, i think suiseki to . You're right about a coastal rock looks like a big cliff that the waves are pounding against. Well in my mind anyway
Absolutely love the rock, i think suiseki to . You're right about a coastal rock looks like a big cliff that the waves are pounding against. Well in my mind anyway
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Re: Coastal Rock Stone
Thanks for positive comments everyone. The shots were taken with a 100-400mm f4.5 Canon zoom. Usually I'd use a Canon 100mm f2.8 macro lens. Longer lenses have a relatively shallow depth of field which throws foreground/background out of focus (a good thing) but this also makes the point of focus more critical.
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