Weathered Stone---Tafoni

These photos are of a curiously bizarre type of weathered stone called tafoni. The first photo looks as though it's some creature trying to force its way out of the stone---my imagination goes haywire with the shapes, textures, and random designs created in the stone. There are caves of Tibetan monks, the lunar surface, pits from Dante's Inferno, the demented work of H.R. Giger...







Here is a slideshow of the weathered stone tafoni at Salt Point.

Adventures in Bad Lighting and Indoor Weather

 Taking photos of the Mimosa flowers indoors sounded like a great idea---as opposed to the whole tripod on the roof thing. The first few photos were much too dark and some were blurry, as though a breeze had been blowing. My low tech and half-assed solution to the lighting problem was to use a flashlight. Yes, I admit, I was rather pleased with myself.
 After looking at some of the photos I realized what a poor solution the flashlight was. On the other hand, I was able to create very different effects depending on where and how I directed the flashlight---exactly the kind of 'educational mistake' I'm looking for.
As for fixing the blurry photos...I turned off the ceiling fan.





Here is a slideshow of ten of the photos. I edited the two pinkest photos with "auto color" in Picasa. None of the other photos have been edited, except for some cropping. I wanted to see what results I could get with the camera alone (and the flashlight).