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Show us your Boulders

Show us your Boulders


Postby Tomsie » Sun Oct 06, 2013 5:23 pm

How many take photos of boulders, rocks when out walking, majority of photo,s seem to be of glens, waterfalls, people on summits, have a rake through your photo,s and show us your boulders. :lol:

Taken at the Sneck

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Made with some smaller boulders bored at Gleann Slugain

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Re: Show us your Boulders

Postby OpenC » Sun Oct 06, 2013 5:32 pm

Go on then :lol: These are perhaps not quite so bouldery as you were looking for, but a couple from around the Cheviots..

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There are prehistoric carvings on this particular boulder next to Simonside, looking over toward the Cheviots

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The top of The Schil, which is just on the Scotland side of the border fence, looking at Windy Gyle on the other side of the border ridge (the border is a strange shape around Cheviot).
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Re: Show us your Boulders

Postby jmarkb » Sun Oct 06, 2013 5:37 pm

I may have posted these before somewhere, but:

Wild Boar, Torridon
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Dolphin, River Findhorn
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Troll family portrait, Beinn Mor Coigach
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Re: Show us your Boulders

Postby OpenC » Sun Oct 06, 2013 5:40 pm

Reclining troll on holiday in Northumberland

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Simonside again
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Re: Show us your Boulders

Postby Tomsie » Sun Oct 06, 2013 5:46 pm

The dolphins a good one. :clap:
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Re: Show us your Boulders

Postby Belgian_Hiker » Sun Oct 06, 2013 6:15 pm

Another dolphin ?

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Re: Show us your Boulders

Postby peak_hiker » Sun Oct 06, 2013 7:03 pm

pic in the Peak District (my partner in the pic)

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Re: Show us your Boulders

Postby WalkingDutchman » Mon Oct 07, 2013 11:13 am

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lichen on a rock...
Almost looks like someone used a marker and then coloured it in...

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Just weird...
On top of Sail Mhor, there were lots of these, almost draped/poured, pieces of rock. Looks almost like someone poured concrete...

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Piece of flint in a big sandstone rock...

I actually shoot quite a bit of rocks/boulders, but usually those shots are less interesting than the glens/lochs/waterfalls, because they have less motion in them.
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Re: Show us your Boulders

Postby BlackPanther » Mon Oct 07, 2013 12:15 pm

Ooooh, I think you have just opened a long thread :lol: :lol: :lol:

I have a bad habit of taking photos of rocks and trying to work out what they resemble. Sometimes with surprising results...

The biggest bum of the Cairngorms:
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The Old Man of Bynack:
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Easter Island type rock:
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A tortoise:
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The hidden monster of An Teallach:
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The Wicked Witch of Ben Loyal:
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Bathtube on Beinn a'Mheadhoin:
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A sea monster on Braeriach:
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The Shark of Suilven (just the fin :lol: ):
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The naughty secret of New Slains :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: Show us your Boulders

Postby jmarkb » Mon Oct 07, 2013 12:35 pm

That's a good collection there, BP!

Here's a couple more from abroad:

Turtle in Mongolia
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"Impossible" pinnacle in Greenland
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Re: Show us your Boulders

Postby Sarah86 » Mon Oct 07, 2013 1:48 pm

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Re: Show us your Boulders

Postby Sgurr » Mon Oct 07, 2013 11:16 pm

The Old Grey Man of Merrick doesn't like Mars bars
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Re: Show us your Boulders

Postby Kevin29035 » Mon Oct 07, 2013 11:46 pm

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Me running around Dumbarton Rock boulders with a headtorch, 12 minutes.
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Re: Show us your Boulders

Postby basscadet » Tue Oct 08, 2013 12:03 am

Some aussie boulders for a change of scenery :wink:

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Re: Show us your Boulders

Postby RicKamila » Tue Oct 08, 2013 8:42 am

Glad to know Im not the only one who takes photos of boulders :lol:

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Sgoran Dubh Mor 2 by CullenEllermanPhotography, on Flickr

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Bynack More 12 by CullenEllermanPhotography, on Flickr

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Bynack More Panorama by CullenEllermanPhotography, on Flickr

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Mither Tap by CullenEllermanPhotography, on Flickr

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Craiglich by CullenEllermanPhotography, on Flickr

Basscadet - Love the photos of my homeland :D
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