Nature is the finest sculptor. Image: Su Leslie 2018I’ve never grown out of the desire to pick up (and bring home) random beautiful objects I find while out walking.
Auckland’s coastal geology is predominantly sandstone, a rock easily smoothed and eroded. I love the spare, sculptural forms that result.
Limestone formations, Waro Reserve, Hikurangi, Northland, NZ. Image: Su Leslie, 2016
This is one of the first photos I posted last year, from a piece titled Weathered but not broken.
2018 has begun with the same lowering skies and thundery rain as when I took the photo — on January 1 2017.
Now, as then, the tectonic plates upon which my life rests feel as active (if not shaky) as those whose movement shape my country’s landscapes.
Now, as then, I am weathered but not broken.
“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
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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