Ashes Mountain

El Monte de las Cenizas (the Ashes Mountain) is part of the natural

Park of Calblanque and the Monte de las Cenizas in Murcia, in

southeastern Spain. This is a typical rocky formation up in the

mountain.

This is great, Alberto - and not exactly your usual fare. I really like the textures. Well seen!

Thanks Lou Ann, Ity's great to have the first comment coming from you!

And yes, it's quite a different approach, but needed to improve, don't you agree?

I absolutely agree! If I didn't, you'd only ever see photos of mountains from me. :-) And lately I've uploaded images of churches and a rooster and a hallway ....... you might even see a photo of a complete stranger coming up one of these days. And NOW I have to go out and find a rock face to shoot. :-)

Estupenda en colores y texturas. Saludos.

a mi las texturas siempre me han gustado mucho. esta es magistral.

Alberto, me sorprende gratamente ver que abres otros horizontes estéticos y que exploras otros puntos de vista...quizás porque mi vision es usualmente más abstracta y estas imágenes me son más cercanas. Me gustan las fotos. Bienvenido a la introspección...

Has captado genialmente la esencia del lugar, esas vetas comprimidas horizontalmente de la roca metamorfica con sus tonos ocres producto del oxido de hierro y las incrustaciones blancas de cuarcita. Estupenda.

The colours are good - nice rich browns etc . Is this a volcanic area? My engineering training included a bit of geology which I found fascinating.

No, Colin. This is a metamorphic rock in a cape mountain near the town of Cartagena in Spain, the National Park of Calblanque and the Mount of the Ashes. I shot the yellowish image, titled, Heavy metal from up there.

According to Guillermo Labarga (a guide of that Natural Park and great photographer), who was with me snapping at everything that morning, those ocre colours are the result of iron oxide and the whitish incrusts are Quartzite.