darkness closes in as souls are sucked out…
I have sat on this image for some time, actually it's a series of images and in this case this is 4 portrait frames stitched together. I could not quite get the composition I wanted (at the time or in one frame) and include all the rocks so opted to take a series of shots and see how things looked after the fact.
I don't normally crop to square, however all other variations, portrait and landscape and pano just did not hit the spot.
What i did like though was the awesome colour in the low tide rocks and the slippery jet black rocks, seemingly enticing all to fall into the channel. I picked out a frame where the water flow was receding and from this angle looks like its getting sucked down a plug hole behind the rock 🙂
this channel sits just below Red Hill (named such since.. well you guessed it.. the dirt is very red 😉 ) which provides a great contrast to the bleak black rocks, but that's a image for another day.
4 images (portrait) stitched together as a pano then cropped to square.
Exif love:
D750 coupled with 16-35mm f4 @ 16mm Aperture: f/22 and Shutter Speed: 1.6s
ISO -0.7EV
out front – Hoya CPL and Lee Graduated 0.9x Filter
Ooh how awesome is this +Gerard Blacklock!!
+Kitten KaboodleInc
Dark and evil ? 🙂
Very Beautiful :-))
+Gerard Blacklock well not s' much evil 🙂
Thanks +linda sunshyne
+Kitten KaboodleInc
bugger 🙂 …
Very dramatic, love it +Gerard Blacklock!! Love your caption for it too…very appropriate!! This is seriously what nightmares are made of!! Great job!! Sounds like a lot of work went into it after the fact but definitely worth the effort!! 🙂
+Gerard Blacklock cmon cant do the #dino-cino AND be evil as well! 😀
Thanks +Elizabeth Testone , much appreciated, sometimes you need to sit and stew on a image before it gets out 🙂
+Kitten KaboodleInc
well yes i suppose.. but I am sure the devil drinks #cinos and probably #babies as well 🙂
+Gerard Blacklock lol! Yes I suppose so 😮
+Kitten KaboodleInc
<insert evil chortle here>
+Gerard Blacklock muwahaha :p
+Gerard Blacklock and +Kitten KaboodleInc, you too are hoot!! Thanks for the laughs! 🙂
+Elizabeth Testone hehe thanks for putting up with the random humour:D
Wonderful..so dramatic
lovely capture +Gerard Blacklock
Wonderful shot…..looks great….
Gerard you have done great work here !!
Bello paisaje!
+Elizabeth Testone
need something to get me thru the week 🙁
Thankyou +Cole R572
Cheers mate +Hammad Rais , hope all is well.
Thankyou June.+June Ibrahim
Thankyou +Loretta Jayne
nice one
Beautiful & calm…
Excellent!
Gerard… Excellent shot and presentation. I reckon it would make a perfect cover picture for a Stephen King novel.
cheers +Glen Anderson
Thankyou +Kelcey Putri and +Victoria Winningham
Thanks mate – i am glad that darkness / evil is conveyed -its very hard to evoke an emotion with a landscape sometimes (well for me anyway)+Graeme Andrew
Me too +Gerard Blacklock!! So keep it coming!! 🙂
Toujours aussi beau et ce gris sombre parfois violacé est magnifique.
+Gerard Blacklock Love the dark mood in this shot mate! The square format works a treat!
I was initially thinking a vertical compo of the middle left would work, but you know what I really love that crazy black chunk of cloud in the top left corner
+Gerard Blacklock All is definitely well, putting some extra effort on my blog these days
Thankyou +Michele pujo-sausset
Cheers +Tom Testone , its probably a good format for instagram or something 🙂
+Rodney Campbell
yeah its made up of verticla shots, so that's a easy option :), I have quite a few others from this spot of various angles, but it was hard just to get a composition that I was happy with.
+Hammad Rais
good to hear, I had another look and you are getting some good content on there, be sure to keep sharing them through gplus! i only look at gplus really 🙂
+Gerard Blacklock thank you so much for checking out my blog, yes I do share them here also