Stacking Rocks

Zanotti

I see this a lot and thought I would try it. Not prefessional, but I liked how it turned out.




What's interesting is behind the rocks, you can see a trout's fin sticking out of the water. It is so hot here, they are trying to get upstream to a small cooler spring and are stacked up in the mouth of the stream.

Z

Zanotti

Maybe rotated a bit:

eoren1

Hey Z
Nice stacking job!
The blown out highlights are competing pretty strongly with the focal point unfortunately. Is there any way to tone those down? A shallower DOF might have helped keep the focus on the fruits of your labor as well
E

Zerodog

Shallower depth of field would make this shot 100% better IMO. It will make your rock stack stand out from the background as the main subject. Cool idea though. I see that little fin there too. Cool! I hope you caught some of those suckers. Those rock stacks are all over the place here in the desert as trail markers. Sometimes they are pretty elaborate. I have even seen an arch.

kdog

Z, did you stack those? If so, impressive job! How tall is that stack?

liflander

Re: Stacking Rocks
I think that type of rock stack as a trail marker is called a 'cairn.'

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