Carolina Blue Ridge Granite (Please view larger)

Western North Carolina--a tree-hugger, rock-hugger paradise

 

--Lannie

This is a photo that has a surprisingly strong impact especially when viewed larger. I'd say it has a pretty good emotional component or at least it evokes an emotion in me.

I  concur with Jack on the impact and note that it comes primarily from the strong tonal contrast.

 

Excellent Image!

Jim  Phelps

Jack and Jim, thank you!  I like it, but it didn't receive a single rating all day long.  I was sitting here wondering how something that expresses and records such a big part of me--my many outdoor meanderings in the mountains--could have such an abysmally low impact on others.

 

Granitic rock faces like this are common on the "front range" (the "Blue Ridge") all the way up and down the southern Appalachians.  They are almost unknown once one gets into the bigger mountains one range further back into the interior.

 

--Lannie

Lannie,

I liked the "exfoliated" rendition that you did, but I think this crop (?) is even more effective. The other more of a traditional type landscape while this one seems to have a bigger emotional impact. Life/growth etc in the face of hardness and inflexibility, maybe. As Jim mentioned, the tonal contrast is nice in both of them. The rock face just calls out to be examined.

Amy

Thank you, Amy.  These kinds of rock have a special emotional appeal for me.  Of course, there is no way that I can capture that in a picture.

--Lannie