ku # 480 ~ incredible

Monolith in the woods • click to embiggenYesterday afternoon, while attempting to gain a vantage point for a picture I wanted to make (but didn't), I came upon a steep jumbled boulder field in the woods. The boulders are at the foot of a 400-500 ft stone cliff.

The size of the field was impressive as were the boulders themselves - the one featured here is about 12 ft tall. What was equally amazing was the fact that the boulders and forest floor are covered with a 3-4 inch thick mossy carpet. The smell, the feel, the sensations were incredible. It is an altogether amazing little place in the woods. I will be back.

Comments

[Robert]

Some tension here... what keeps that big rock from sliding down? Lots of good detail lurking in the shadows, and like the previous image the contrast is strong without feeling unnatural. Not sure (I never am) what your aim was here, but if your goal was to inspire the desire to visit in the viewer, it works.

[James]

What Robert said...

And I know it's not always as fashionable to appreciate strictly "natural" shots here, but I can't help but shake my head in disbelief at these last two.

While I enjoy the urban kus as well, there's something about the difficulty of "seeing" this composition within the forest for one thing. This is not just "pretty", it comments on destruction...time...rebirth...hidden places...I could go on. Without Mark even saying so, I know this spot is hidden deep inside a forest that's rugged and oddly gentle/fragile.

Capturing that feeling, and making it say something to the viewer in the process, is another thing altogether. It's all here...forcing me to crave a more "natural" state...

...off to find my own green beds of moss.