This rock reminded me of the stones of Avebury and other prehistoric sites I have visited in the past – although this one is most certainly a natural outcrop, rather than something deliberately placed. I did not get a chance to make a close examination of this rock, but it is on the edge of an area where ‘Cup and Ring’ marked stones are found.
For once, conditions gave me a nice raking light which helped to show the striations on the side of the rock.
—Stephen—
Stephen G Hipperson 
unique!
🙂
Nice composition!
Thanks!
‘aie ces suface délimité par les haies
They are unusual for the area, where dry stone walls tend to be the norm.
Excellent captured – it looks a bit “weird” maybe the top of an “iceberg”… 🙂
🙂 – ‘berg in a sea of green grass.
Yeah… 🙂
Lovely image Stephen…the light is always magical around Almscliffe Crag (err…it is Almscliffe, isn’t it)???
Thanks!
Aye – it be Almscliffe!
Close examination wouldn’t be easy. is that “keep out” that I see written on the side of the rock?
It is.
However, I’m sure some well placed flattery and grovelling would sort the problem. 😉
Awesome. I love when I see a rock discovered in a building project, and the builders decide to work around it. There’s a neighborhood near me that has boulders all around it because the builders just found them there.
Nature has an impeccable decorating eye.
Indeed. Why spend a fortune on ‘garden features’ when they are there as a natural occurrence.
I live the way the field is carved up into pieces behind the rock.
🙂 – The composition was a bit of a compromise. I wanted to show the divisions but also balance the rock using the tree.
Great composition!
Thank you!
I always try to put some sort of thought into my compositions, no matter what the subject or ultimate purpose of the image.
I particularly like the tree in the background. Couldn’t quite figure out the height of the “fence”, so the tree helped me decipher the size of the rock. Honestly, at first I thought it was only about two feet high! Looks like it is just waiting to be climbed.
🙂 – An alternative would have been a tree/fenceless picture, where deception was the name of the game. But whilst it occurred to me to take that approach, I preferred this one ( I could have done both but I was being mithered to get a move on!