Coastal Rock Stone

[fossil finder]

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.

[KIRKY]

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!
Cheers
Kirky

[Ryozo]

Dope find fossil finder! Awesome colours and shape. Like kirky I'm too

[fossil finder]

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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[fossil finder]

Sorry Kirky. Got you mixed up with watty!

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[KIRKY]

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.
Cheers
Kirky

[fossil finder]

......,mmmmm...... Iots! Probably have 600 stones suitable for bonsai and another 150 or so suiseki candidates.

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[wattynine]

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

[peterb]

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

[Kevin]

Hello Fossil Finder,

Great name.
Nice rocks.
Superb Photography.

Mind if i ask - the lens used for this post?

Thanks,
Kevin

[fossil finder]

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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