Limestone formations, Waro Reserve, Hikurangi, Northland, NZ. Image: Su Leslie, 2016
“That’s the thing about rocks–they don’t break easily. When I held them, I wanted to be like them-strong and steady, weathered but not broken.”
― Ellen Dreyer, The Glow Stone
This post was written for Sally D’s Mobile Photography Challenge at Lens and Pens by Sally. This week the theme is nature.
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There’s such beauty in those weathered rocks!
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Thanks Linda. It was a really awe-inspiring place.
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What a strong image .
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That has to have been an area where there was lots of geological activity, Su. When you see the different lines in the rocks it shows that there was a lot of movement at some period in time.
Leslie
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That’s right Leslie. These rocks are limestone karst, formed from sediments and marine live when the are was under water, then moved around by volcanic activity and earthquakes. NZ is full of twisted, turned-around rock formations that have been shaped by our location on the edge of two tectonic plates.
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That makes a lot of sense. You can see the chaos in the rock formations.
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What an apt quote for me as well, Su, and your photo is wonderful.
janet
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Thank you Janet. I started to write some commentary, but realised the quote said all that I wanted to.
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Great photo Su
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Great pic and very inspiring !
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Wow, impressive image. I love the look of the rocks and the grass and foliage accenting them.
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Wow amazing shot.
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Su, your image and quote are lovely companions with their own language to shore each other. Happy Photo Challenge.
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Thank you so much Sally.
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I know it’s silly and I don’t want to know how many times you hear this, but looking at this pic makes me really wonder when the elves, hobbits or Aragorn come round the corner 😉 A truly magnificent rock formation! xxxxxxxxx
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Hehe. Actually, I never think of that, and no-one else has mentioned it. I’m not a LOTR fan, and I kind of forget that people associate New Zealand with Tolkein — until I’m confronted with a busload of tourists in a Hobbiton minivan, posing outside the Matamata Visitor Centre which has been made to look like a hobbit house. Matamata is where the Hobbiton scenes were filmed, and the set is now a tourist attraction. I have cognitive dissonance at this; for me Matamata will always be the town where my family stopped for a toilet break on the way to a beach resort. Oh dear, I’m not exactly a romantic soul am I? xxxxx
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Well, that’s good then 😉 I have to confess to love the LOTR, have read the books when I was 11 😄 And again when I was 16, 21 …. 😉
And I was very suspicious when I heard that it was going to be filmed! But the results were luckily very good indeed and New Zealand really is just perfect for it. If I will ever visit it, I’m sure I’ll be just one more nasty tourist crawling into Hobbington 😉 But as I see myself as a hobbit-elf hybrid (tiny but no ugly feet 😉) I think I’m entitled to 😉 xxxxxx
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I shouldn’t complain about the LOTR visitors. They are helping to revitalise some rural, immunities through tourism, and that’s definitely a good thing. If you do ever get to NZ, I’ll drive you to Hobbiton myself.
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I’ll hold you to that promise! 😄 xxxxxxx
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I hope so. We can have an art, food and LOTR road trip!
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Ohhh! That would be sooooo awesome!!!!! And who knows, it might actually come true. A friend of mine moved to Japan and I haven’t seen her in years and would love to very much. And when I’m already in that corner of the planet I could quickly hop over to NZ! 😄
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Why is it, rocks from far off lands always seem more mysterious, more entrancing, than your everyday, found-on-the-street rocks? Perhaps they have a better publicist?
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I hadn’t thought about that, but you are right. Foreign landscapes always seem more exciting.
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By the look of the ominous horizon, some dramatic weathering was about to take place. Did you get caught in it?
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It looked ominous all the way home, but nothing much came of it, and by evening it was glorious. Windy but!
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Hmm…nothing much came of the ominous clouds over us today either.
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We seem to be under a decent high at the moment. Hope it lasts; we have visitors staying next week and the kids are looking forward to some beach time.
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Beautiful rocks. Did they roll off the cliff?
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No, they are limestone layers that have been deformed by volcanic and tectonic activity, and exposed by erosion. They look like a giant has tumbled out lots of building blocks, stacked a few and left the rest lying around.
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I took a closer look, and now i see the layers, they do look like stacked building blocks or giant dominoes.
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This looks amazing, love those clouds!
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